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(Redirected from Guariba Maku language) Nadahup language spoken in Brazil Not to be confused with Kaburi language.
Nadëb
Kaburi
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Ethnicity850 (2010)
Native speakers370 (2011)
Language familyNadahup
  • Nadëb
Dialects
  • Kuyawi
Language codes
ISO 639-3mbj
Glottolognade1244
ELPNadëb

Nadëb or Kaburi is a Nadahup language of the Brazilian Amazon, along the Uneiuxi, Japura, and Negro rivers. Various names for it include Nadöbö, Xïriwai, Hahöb, Guariba/Wariwa, Kaborí, Anodöub, sometimes compounded with the term Maku, as in Maku do Paraná Boá-Boá after one of the rivers in Nadëb territory.

Phonology

Front Back
unrounded rounded
Close i ɯ u
Close-mid e ɤ o
Open-mid ɛ ʌ ɔ
Open a

All vowels except for /e, ɤ, o/ have nasalized counterparts.

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɟ g
Fricative ʃ h
Flap ɾ
Semivowel j w

References

  1. Nadëb language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Nadëb". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  3. A completely different Kaburi language is spoken in West Papua
  4. "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.

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Languages of Brazil
Official language
Regional languages
Indigenous
languages
Arawakan
Arawan
Cariban
Panoan
Macro-Jê
Nadahup
Tupian
Chapacuran
Tukanoan
Nambikwaran
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Interlanguages
Sign languages
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