Tamanaku language

Tamanaku
Native toVenezuela
Extinct20th century[1]
Cariban
  • Venezuelan Carib
    • Mapoyo–Tamanaku
      • Tamanaku
Language codes
ISO 639-3tmz
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Glottologtama1338

Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.

The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by Gilij in 1780, from his 20-year stay among the Tamanku beginning around 1750.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop p t k ʔ
Affricate ts (dz)
Fricative [β] [h]
Nasal m n [ɲ]
Liquid r [l]
Approximant w j

Stops may have voiced allophones of [b d ɡ]. Allophones of /p, n, r/ include [β h ɲ l].[3]

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Mid e ẽ ə ə̃ o õ
Low a ã

References

  1. ^ Tamanaku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Meira S, Birchall J, Chousou-Polydouri S. 2015. A character-based internal classification of the Cariban family. Talk presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisticae Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands, Sept. 4.
  3. ^ Melles, Gavin (1991). Reseña: Marie Claude Mattéi-Muller y P. Henley - Los tamanaku: su lengua, su vida.


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