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Umotína
Native to Brazil
Region Mato Grosso
Extinct2003 [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 umo
Glottolog umot1240
ELP Umutina

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It is one of the few languages in the world to have a linguolabial consonant; in unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury reported it has the voiceless linguolabial plosive: //. [2] [3]

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.