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Nadëb or Kaburi[3] is a Nadahup language of the Brazilian Amazon, along the Uneiuxi, Japura, and Negro rivers. Various names for it include Nadöbö, Xïriwai, Hahöb, Guariba/Wariwa, Kaborí, Anodöub, sometimes compounded with the term Maku, as in Maku do Paraná Boá-Boá after one of the rivers in Nadëb territory.
Phonology
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ |
| Open | a | ||
All vowels except for /e, ɤ, o/ have nasalized counterparts.[4]
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | ||
| Fricative | ʃ | h | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||
References
- ^ Nadëb language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Nadëb". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- ^ A completely different Kaburi language is spoken in West Papua
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
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