Yaruro language
| Yaruro | |
|---|---|
| Pumé | |
| Region | Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | Yaruro people |
Native speakers | 7,900 (2001 census)[1] |
|
Esmeralda–Yaruro ?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yae |
| Glottolog |
pume1238[2] |
The Yaruro language (also spelled Llaruro or Yaruru; also called Yuapín or Pumé) is an indigenous language spoken by Yaruro people, along the Orinoco, Cinaruco, Meta, and Apure rivers of Venezuela. It is not well classified; it may be an isolate, or distantly related to the extinct Esmeralda language.
Sounds
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | c | k ɡ | ʔ | ||
| Affricate | ts dz | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | w | ɾ l | j |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| æ | ɔ | ||
| Low | a | ɑ | |
Notes
- ↑ Yaruro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pumé". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Obregón Muñoz (1981). Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Alexandra Y. Aikhenvlad & R. M. Dixon (1999). p. 378. Missing or empty
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