Umotína language

Umotína
Umutína
Native toBrazil
RegionMato Grosso
Ethnicity515 Umutina (2014)[1]
Extinct2003[2]
Macro-Jê ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3umo
Glottologumot1240
ELPUmutina
Umutina is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct language of Brazil.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

It is one of the few languages in the world reported to have a linguolabial consonant: In unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury recorded a voiceless linguolabial plosive [].[4][5]

Tan Huare (2015)

Umotina consonants[6]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Occlusive plain p t k
voiced b
lab.
voiced lab.
Nasal m n
Fricative plain s ʃ h
voiced z ʒ
Tap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Pereira Lima (1995)

Umotina consonants[7]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Occlusive p t k
Fricative plain ʃ
voiced z ʒ
Nasal m n
Tap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Vowels

Umotina vowels[6][7]
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

References

  1. ^ "Umutina - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  2. ^ Camargos, L. S. (2013). Consolidando uma proposta de Família Linguística Boróro: contribuição aos estudos histórico-comparativos do Tronco Macro-Jê (Doctoral thesis) (in Portuguese). Universidade de Brasília..
  3. ^ Schultz, Harald (1952). "Vocabulario dos Indios Umutina". Journal de la société des américanistes. 41 (1): 81–137. doi:10.3406/jsa.1952.2400.
  4. ^ Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4): 683. doi:10.2307/411090. JSTOR 411090.
  5. ^ Olson, Kenneth S.; Reiman, D. William; Sabio, Fernando; da Silva, Filipe Alberto (2013). "The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko". Journal of West African Languages. 42 (2): 63. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  6. ^ a b Tan Huare, Ducinéia (2015). Léxico remanescente Umutina: repertório linguístico de seus lembrantes (PDF) (masters thesis). Caceres: Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso.
  7. ^ a b Pereira Lima, Stella Telles (1995). A Língua Umutína: "um sopro de vida" (PDF) (masters thesis). Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.