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South American aboriginal language Not to be confused with Orejone language.
Orejón
Koto
Máíhɨ̃ki
Native toPeru
Native speakers190 (2007)
Language familyTucanoan
  • West
    • Napo
      • Orejón
Language codes
ISO 639-3ore
Glottologorej1242
ELPOrejón

Orejón (Oregon), also Coto or Maijiki, is a moribund Tucanoan language of Peru.

Writing system

Orejón alphabet orejón
a b ch d e g i ɨ ɨ̱ j k m n ñ o p r s t u w y

The letters ⟨a̱, e̱, i̱, ɨ, ɨ̱, o̱, u̱⟩ can also be written as ⟨â, ê, î, ü, ï, ô, û⟩ in the National Register of Identity and Civil Status of Peru.

Nasal vowels have an underlined stroke and tones are indicated using diacritics:

  • low-tone vowels with the grave accent ⟨à è ì ɨ̀ ò ù⟩;
  • high-tone vowels with the acute accent ⟨á é í ɨ́ ó ú⟩;
  • low-tone nasal vowels with the macron below and grave accent ⟨à̱ è̱ ì̱ ɨ̱̀ ò̱ ù̱⟩;
  • high-tone nasal vowels with the macron below and acute accent ⟨á̱ é̱ í̱ ɨ̱́ ó̱ ú̱⟩.

References

  1. Orejón at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
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