Yanomám language
| Yanomám | |
|---|---|
| Yąnomamɨ | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Roraima, Amazonas |
| Ethnicity | Yanomami |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2006) |
Yanomam
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Brazil ( Amazonas) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wca |
| Glottolog | yano1262 |
| ELP | Yanomam |
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Yanomám, also Waiká (or Yanomae, Yanomama, Yanomami), is one of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people in Brazil. Most speakers are monolingual. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
The names Waika (Guaica) and Yanomami are shared with the Yanomamö language.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Plosive | tenuis | p | t | k | ||
| aspirated | tʰ | |||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Liquid | w | ɾ ~ l | j | |||
- /ɾ/ may also be realized as [l].
- An epenthetic glottal stop [ʔ] occurs between vowels.
- /p t k/ may be realized as voiceless [p t k] or voiced [b d g].
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | |
| Close | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | u | ũ |
| Mid | e | ẽ | ə | o | õ | |
| Open | a | ã | ||||