Korubo language

{{Short description|Endangered Panoan language of Brazil}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Korubo

| altname = Cacetero

| fontcolor = #ffffff

| states = Brazil

| ethnicity = 250 Korubo (2000)

| speakers = 26

| date = 2007

| ref = e18

| familycolor = pano-tacanan

| fam1 = Panoan

| fam2 = Mayoruna

| fam3 = Mayo

| fam4 =

| iso3 = xor

| glotto = koru1247

| glottorefname = Korubo

| dia2 = Chankueshbo

| dia1 = Korubo

| nativename = {{lang|xor|dsalala}}

}}

Korubo is a nearly extinct Panoan language spoken by the Korubo people of Brazil. There are two dialects, Korubo itself and moribund Chankueshbo.{{Cite journal |last=W. Fleck |first=David |date=October 10, 2013 |title=Panoan Languages and Linguistics |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstreams/e3f57392-58bb-47ea-9469-499cf75236ca/download |journal=Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History |issue=99 |pages=11 |doi=10.5531/sp.anth.0099|hdl=2246/6448 |hdl-access=free }}

Phonology

Korubo has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.{{Cite web|url=http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~saphon|title=SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories|website=linguistics.berkeley.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-08-10}}

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!rowspan=2|Bilabial

!colspan=2|Alveolar

!rowspan=2|Palatal

!colspan=2|Velar

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!lateral

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Nasal

|{{IPA link|m}}

|{{IPA link|n}}

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Plosive

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|{{IPA link|k}}

|{{IPA link|kʷ}}

Affricate

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|{{IPA link|t͡s}}

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|{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}

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Fricative

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|{{IPA link|s}}

|{{IPA link|ɬ}}

|{{IPA link|ʃ}}

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Semivowel

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|{{IPA link|w}}

References

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