Tamanaku () is an extinct
Cariban language
The Cariban languages are a Language family, family of languages Indigenous to north-eastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spok ...
of
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
.
The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by
Gilij 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 É¡ Allophones of /p, n, r/ include
² h ɲ l
Vowels
References
Languages of Venezuela
Cariban languages
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