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Umotína language

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Recently extinct language of Brazil

Umotína
Native toBrazil
RegionMato Grosso
Extinct2003
Language familyMacro-Gê
Language codes
ISO 639-3umo
Glottologumot1240
ELPUmutina

Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct language of Brazil.

Phonology

It is one of the few languages in the world to have a linguolabial consonant; in unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury reported it has the voiceless linguolabial plosive: /t̼/.

References

  1. 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..
  2. Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4): 683. doi:10.2307/411090. JSTOR 411090.
  3. 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.
Languages of Brazil
Official language
Regional languages
Indigenous
languages
Arawakan
Arawan
Cariban
Panoan
Macro-Jê
Nadahup
Tupian
Chapacuran
Tukanoan
Nambikwaran
Others
Interlanguages
Sign languages
Non-official
Macro-Jê languages
Cerrado
Goyaz
Panará
Northern
Timbira
Central (Akuwẽ)
Jê of Paraná
Southern
Unclassified
Trans–São Francisco
Krenák
Maxakalían
Kamakã
Western
Mato Grosso
Jabutian
Karajá
Borôro ?
Karirí ?
Purian ?
Italics indicate extinct languages


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