Marúbo is a
Panoan language
Panoan (also Pánoan, Panoano, Panoana, Páno) is a family of languages spoken in Peru, western Brazil, and Bolivia. It is possibly a branch of a larger Pano–Tacanan family.
Genetic relations
The Panoan family is generally believed to be rela ...
of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Features
Marubo is an
agglutinative
In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative lang ...
language with and
SOV word order. It has a graded tense system where what tense is used it determined by the distance in time between the time of reference (usually the time of speaking) and the time in which the mentioned even happened. Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.
Phonology
Consonants
* /v/ can be heard as either
or
�
Vowels
* /a, ɨ, u/ may also be heard as
�, ɯ, ʊ
* Vowels may also be nasalized when preceding nasal consonants.
Status
The Marubo Language is considered threatened due to competition with
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Port ...
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Sample text
References
External links
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin AmericaWordlist & Songs
Panoan languages
Languages of Brazil
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