Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct
Cariban language of
Venezuela
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The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by
Gilij in 1780, from his 20-year stay among the Tamanku beginning around 1750.
[Meira S, Birchall J, Chousou-Polydouri S. 2015. ]
A character-based internal classification of the Cariban family
'. Talk presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisticae Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands, Sept. 4.
Phonology
Consonants
Stops may have voiced allophones of
d É¡ Allophones of /p, n, r/ include
² h ɲ l
Vowels
References
Languages of Venezuela
Cariban languages
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