Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct

Cariban language The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to northeastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spoken in small pockets ...

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. The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by

Gilij Filippo Salvatore Gilii (Spanish: Felipe Salvador Gilij) (1721–1789) was an Italian Jesuit priest who lived in the Province of Venezuela (in present day central Venezuela) on the Orinoco River. Gilii is a highly celebrated figure in early Sou ...

in 1780, from his 20-year stay among the Tamanku beginning around 1750.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.

Phonology

Consonants

Stops may have voiced allophones of d ɡ Allophones of /p, n, r/ include � h ɲ l

Vowels

References

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