Oro Win language

{{Short description|Moribund Chapacuran language of Brazil}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Oro Win

| region = Rondônia

| ethnicity = 55 Oro Win (1998)

| speakers = 5

| date = 2011

| ref = e18

| familycolor = American

| fam1 = Chapacuran

| fam2 = Wari

| iso3 = orw

| glotto = orow1243

| glottorefname = Oro Win

| notice = IPA

| states = Brazil

| altname =

| nativename = {{lang|orw|Oro Towati'}}

}}

Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.{{Cite web |title=Oro Win - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil |url=https://pib.socioambiental.org/en/Povo:Oro_Win |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=pib.socioambiental.org}} As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.{{cite web|last=Birchall|first=Joshua|title=Oro Win Language|url=http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/oro-win/2237|publisher=Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto|access-date=2012-12-30}} However, other reports dictate that there are 12 speakers as of 2015, and there are efforts to increase use of Oro Win among the community.{{Cite web |title=Did you know Orowari is critically endangered? |url=https://endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1741 |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=Endangered Languages |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Tondineli |first=Patrícia Goulart |url=https://edufro.unir.br/uploads/08899242/Colecao%20pos%20UNIR/02%20Revitalizar%20linguas.pdf |title=(Re)vitalizar línguas minorizadas e/ou ameaçadas: teorias, metodologias, pesquisas e experiências |date=2021 |publisher=EDITORA DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE RONDÔNIA - EDUFRO |isbn=978-65-87539-61-4 |edition=1 |doi=10.47209/978-65-87539-61-4}}

Phonology

Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, {{IPA|[t͡ʙ̥]}}.

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!Front

!Back

Close

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Near-close

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Close-mid

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Open

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!Bilabial

!Dental

!Alveolar

!Palatal

!Velar

!Glottal

Stop

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Fricative

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Nasal

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Flap

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Semivowel

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