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Minica Huitoto
Minica Huitoto
Mɨnɨka
Native to	Colombia, Peru
Native speakers	1,500 (2008)
Language family	Bora–Witoto Witoto–Ocaina Witoto Minica–Murui Minica Huitoto; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hto
Glottolog	mini1256
ELP	Minica Huitoto

Minica (Mɨnɨka) Huitoto is one of three indigenous American Huitoto languages of the Witotoan family spoken by a few thousand speakers in western South America.^[1]

It is spoken in the Upper Igara-Paraná river area, along the Caquetá River at the Isla de los Monos, and the Caguán River near San Vicente del Caguán. There is 75% literacy in Colombia and 85% are literate in Spanish; most are bilingual. There is a dictionary and grammar rules.^[1]

There are only five speakers in Peru, where it has official standing within its community.^[1]

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		ɯ	u
Mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
Stop	voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative	voiceless	ɸ	θ		x
Fricative	voiced	β
Tap			ɾ

Stops /b, d, ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] in word-initial position.
Labial consonants /b, ɸ, m/ may also be heard as labialized [bʷ, ɸʷ, mʷ] before the back-close vowel /ɯ/.^[2]

Writing system

Minica Huitoto alphabet^[3]
a	b	c	ch	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	ll	m	n	ñ	ng	o	p	q	r	t	u	v	ɨ	z

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Minica Huitoto at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Ávila, Youlín (2018). Las vocales en sílabas CV orales acentuadas del mɨnɨka hablado en Bogotá: una descripción fonética acústica. Bogotá, Colombia: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. pp. 16–17.
^ "Vocabulario bilingüe: huitoto-español, español-huitoto (dialecto mɨnɨca)". SIL International. 24 January 2013.