Umotína language
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Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct Bororoan language of Brazil. As of 2015, only two elders remembered the language. The language was decimated by various epidemics among the Umutina.
Phonology
Consonants
It is one of the few languages in the world reported to have a linguolabial consonant: In unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury recorded a voiceless linguolabial plosive [t̼].
Tan Huare (2015)
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | plain | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | |||||
| lab. | pʷ | kʷ | ||||
| voiced lab. | bʷ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Fricative | plain | s | ʃ | h | ||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j |
Pereira Lima (1995)
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | p | t | k | ||
| Fricative | plain | ʃ | |||
| voiced | z | ʒ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Approximant | w | j |