Jebero (Chebero, Xebero, Xihuila) is a moribund Amazonian language spoken by the Jebero people of
Jeberos
Jeberos is a town in the Loreto Region of Peru. It is south of the Marañón River
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, Peru. It is spoken by only a small number of older adults and belongs to the
Cahuapanan family together with
Chayahuita
Chayahuita is an endangered Amazonian language spoken by thousands of native Chayahuita people in the Amazon basin of north-central Peru. Spoken along the banks of the Paranapura, Cahuapanas, Sillay, and Shanusi rivers, it is also known as Chaya ...
.
Phonology
Vowels
* varies between close front unrounded , near-close front unrounded and close-mid front unrounded .
* varies between near-close near-front rounded and close-mid back weakly rounded , with the latter realization being the most usual.
* varies between mid near-front unrounded and close-mid central unrounded .
** is shorter than the other vowels, particularly between voiceless consonants.
** The sequence is sometimes realized as a syllabic .
* varies between open central unrounded and near-open retracted front . The vowel chart in puts in the near-open central position .
** In closed syllables, is realized as open-mid central unrounded .
Consonants
* are
bilabial
In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.
Frequency
Bilabial consonants are very common across languages. Only around 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether, including Tli ...
, whereas is
labialized velar.
* is an
affricate
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pai ...
, rather than a plosive. It has nevertheless been placed in the table in that manner to save space.
* are
laminal
A laminal consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue in contact
with upper lip, teeth, alveolar ridge, to possibly, as ...
denti-alveolar
In linguistics, a denti-alveolar consonant or dento-alveolar consonant is a consonant that is articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and the upper teeth, such as and in languages such as French, Italian and Spanish. That is, ...
.
** In the syllable
coda
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, is realized with a wider contact, maximally dentoalveolo-velar .
** After , the denti-alveolar contact is often not made, which makes sound more like a velar nasal .
** may sometimes sound as if it were a lateral consonant, but it is never realized as lateral.
* are dentoalveolo-palatal .
** is sometimes realized as a weak fricative .
* occurs only in the affirmative interjection .
* is realized as a
flap
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in the syllable onset and as a trill in the syllable coda.
* is a glottalized flap . Intervocalically, it is realized as a sequence .
References
Bibliography
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Languages of Peru
Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas
Cahuapanan languages