Japreria language
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Japrería | |
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Native to | Venezuela |
Ethnicity | 216[1] |
Native speakers | 170 (2002 census)[2] |
Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | jru |
Glottolog | japr1238 |
Japrería (Yapreria) is a Cariban language of Venezuela.
Orthography
- a - [a]
- ch/č - [t͡ʃ]
- e - [e]
- ë - [ə]
- i - [i]
- h/j - [h]
- j/x - [x]
- k/c/qu - [k]
- m - [m]
- n - [n]
- o - [o]
- p - [p]
- r - [ɾ]
- ŕ - [ʁ]
- s - [s]
- sh/š - [ʃ]
- t - [t]
- u - [u]
- ü/y/ɨ -[ɨ]
- v - [ʋ]
- y/j - [j] [3]
Phonology
Japreria has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.[4]
Labial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | |
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Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Affricate | t͡ʃ | ||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||
Nasal | m | n | |||
Approximant | ʋ | j | |||
Rhotic | ɾ | ʀ |
/ʋ/ is labiodental, while /m, p/ are bilabial.
References
- ^ Japreria language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Japrería at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Japreria language at Omniglot
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-14.