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
|{{IPA link|i}} | |
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Near-close
|{{IPA link|ʏ}} | |
Close-mid
|{{IPA link|e}} |{{IPA link|o}} |
Open
|{{IPA link|a}} | |
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Stop
|{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|ʙ̥|t̪ʙ̥}} |{{IPA link|t}} | |{{IPA link|k}} |{{IPA link|ʔ}} |
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Fricative
|{{IPA link|ɸ}} | |{{IPA link|s}} | | | |
Nasal
|{{IPA link|m}} | |{{IPA link|n}} | | | |
Flap
| | |{{IPA link|ɾ}} | | | |
Semivowel
| | | |{{IPA link|j}} |{{IPA link|w}} | |
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- Everett, Daniel; & Kern, B. (1996). Wari’: The Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil. London: Routledge.
- Ladefoged, Peter; Everett, Daniel. (1996). The status of phonetic rarities. Language, 72 (4), 794–800.
External links
- [http://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/povo/oro-win Oro Win: Povos Indígenas no Brasil - Instituto Socioambiental]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20020307004353/http://www.pitt.edu/utimes/issues/27/101394/16.html Linguistics Professor Discovers New Language in Brazilian Rain Forest]. Pittsburgh University Times v. 27 n. 4 (1994). (offline, but see this [http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@sus.csuchico.edu/msg11747.html copy])
- [http://phonetics.ucla.edu/appendix/languages/orowin/orowin.html UCLA Phonetics Lab Data] – recordings of {{IPA|[t͡ʙ̥]}} in Oro Win.
{{Chapacuran languages}}
{{Languages of Brazil}}
Category:Endangered Chapacuran languages
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