Umotína language
| Umotína | |
|---|---|
| Umutína | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Mato Grosso |
| Ethnicity | 515 Umutina (2014)[1] |
| Extinct | 2003[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | umo |
| Glottolog | umot1240 |
| ELP | Umutina |
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It is one of the few languages in the world reported to have a linguolabial consonant: In unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury recorded a voiceless linguolabial plosive [t̼].[4][5]
Tan Huare (2015)
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | plain | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | |||||
| lab. | pʷ | kʷ | ||||
| voiced lab. | bʷ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Fricative | plain | s | ʃ | h | ||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Pereira Lima (1995)
| 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
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
References
- ^ "Umutina - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
- ^ 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..
- ^ Schultz, Harald (1952). "Vocabulario dos Indios Umutina". Journal de la société des américanistes. 41 (1): 81–137. doi:10.3406/jsa.1952.2400.
- ^ Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4): 683. doi:10.2307/411090. JSTOR 411090.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Tan Huare, Ducinéia (2015). Léxico remanescente Umutina: repertório linguístico de seus lembrantes (PDF) (masters thesis). Caceres: Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso.
- ^ a b Pereira Lima, Stella Telles (1995). A Língua Umutína: "um sopro de vida" (PDF) (masters thesis). Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.