Oro Win is a
moribund
Moribund refers to a literal or figurative state near death.
Moribund may refer to:
* ''Moribund'' (album), a 2006 album by the Norwegian black metal band Koldbrann
* " Le Moribond", a song by Jacques Brel known in English as "Seasons in the Sun ...
Chapacuran language
The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. Almost all Chapacuran languages are extinct, and the four that are extant are moribund. They are spoken in Rondônia in the southern Amazon Basin of ...
spoken along the upper stretches of the
Pacaás Novos River in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a
voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, .
As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.
Phonology
Literature
*
Everett, Daniel; & Kern, B. (1996). ''Wari’: The Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil''. London: Routledge.
*
Ladefoged, Peter;
Everett, Daniel. (1996). The status of phonetic rarities. ''Language'', ''72'' (4), 794–800.
References
External links
Oro Win: Povos Indígenas no Brasil - Instituto Socioambiental
Pittsburgh University Times v. 27 n. 4 (1994). (offline, but see thi
– recordings of in Oro Win.
Chapacuran languages
Endangered Chapacuran languages
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