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| Umotína | |
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| Umutína | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Mato Grosso |
| Ethnicity | 515 Umutina (2014) |
| Extinct | 2004, with the death of Julá Paré |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | umo |
| Glottolog | umot1240 |
| ELP | Umutina |
Umutina is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct Bororoan language of Brazil. As of 2015, only two elders remembered the language. The language was decimated by various epidemics among the Umutina.
It is one of the few languages in the world reported to have a linguolabial consonant: In unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury recorded a voiceless linguolabial plosive [t̼].
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | plain | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | |||||
| lab. | pʷ | kʷ | ||||
| voiced lab. | bʷ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Fricative | plain | s | ʃ | h | ||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | p | t | k | ||
| Fricative | plain | ʃ | |||
| voiced | z | ʒ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |