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Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.

Status

The Marubo language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese.

Phonology

Consonants

• /v/ can be heard as either or .

Vowels

• /a, ɨ, u/ may also be heard as .
• Vowels may also be nasalized when preceding nasal consonants.

Grammar

Marubo is an agglutinative language with and SOV word order. It has a graded tense system where what tense is used it determined by the distance in time between the time of reference (usually the time of speaking) and the time in which the mentioned even happened. Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.

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References

1. Marúbo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Promotora Española de Lingüística". www.proel.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
3. Costa, Raquel Guimarães Romankevicius (2000). Aspectos da fonologia Marubo (Pano): uma visão não-linear. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
4. "Marubo Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
5. "Marubo". TIPs. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
6. academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/book/43795/chapter-abstract/370727287?redirectedFrom=fulltext. Retrieved 2024-06-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
7. "João 1". www.scriptureearth.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.

External links

• Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America - Wordlist & Songs

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