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Yanomamö (Yąnomamɨ) is the most populous of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people. Most speakers are monolingual. It has no natively-used writing system. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
Phonology
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t | k | (ʔ) | ||
| aspirated | tʰ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | w | (l) | j | ||||
/ɾ/ can also alternate to a lateral approximant [l] sound. A glottal stop sound [ʔ] can be heard intervocalically.[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ĩ | ɨ, ɨ̃ | u, ũ |
| Mid | e, ẽ | ə | o, õ |
| Open | a, ã |
References
- ^ Yanomamö at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ferreira, Helder Perri (2017). Yanomama Clause Structure (PDF). Utrecht: LOT. ISBN 978-94-6093-258-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-18.
- ^ Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Dixon, R.M.W. (1999). The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521570213.
- ^ Lizot, Jacques (2004). Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmī. Vicariato Apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho. ISBN 9789806800007. OCLC 61157955.
Further reading
- Ferreira, Helder Perri (2017). Yanomama Clause Structure: Proefschrift (PDF). ISBN 978-94-6093-260-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-11-05.
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