| Yanomamö | |
|---|---|
| Yąnomamɨ | |
| Native to | Venezuela,Brazil |
| Region | Orinoco–Mavaca;Amazonas |
| Ethnicity | Yanomami |
Native speakers | (20,000 cited 2000–2006)[1] |
Yanomam
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guu |
| Glottolog | yano1261 |
| ELP | Yanomamö |
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Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by theYanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. It has no natively-used writing system. For a grammatical description, seeYanomaman languages.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t | k | (ʔ) | ||
| aspirated | tʰ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | w | (l) | j | ||||
/ɾ/ can also alternate to a lateral approximant [l] sound. A glottal stop sound [ʔ] can be heard intervocalically.[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i,ĩ | ɨ,ɨ̃ | u,ũ |
| Mid | e,ẽ | ə | o,õ |
| Open | a,ã |
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