Umotína Language
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Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct language of Brazil.


Phonology

It is one of the few languages in the world to have a
linguolabial consonant Linguolabials or apicolabials are consonants articulated by placing the tongue tip or blade against the upper lip, which is drawn downward to meet the tongue. They represent one extreme of a coronal articulatory continuum which extends from ling ...
; in unpublished data,
Floyd Lounsbury Floyd Glenn Lounsbury (April 25, 1914 – May 14, 1998) was an American linguist, anthropologist and Mayanist scholar and epigrapher, best known for his work on linguistic and cultural systems of a variety of North and South American languages. ...
reported it has the voiceless linguolabial plosive: //.


References

Bororoan languages Indigenous languages of South America Languages of Brazil Mato Grosso Extinct languages of South America {{Macro-Jê-lang-stub