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Umotína language

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Umotína
Umutína
Native toBrazil
RegionMato Grosso
Ethnicity515 Umutina (2014)[1]
Extinct2004, with the death of Julá Paré[2][3]
Macro-Jê ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3umo
Glottologumot1240
ELPUmutina
Umutina is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Umotína or Umutína is a recently extinct Bororoan language of Brazil.[4] As of 2015, only two elders remembered the language.[5] The language was decimated by various epidemics among the Umutina.[1]

Phonology

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Consonants

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It is one of the few languages in the world reported to have a linguolabial consonant: In unpublished data, Floyd Lounsbury recorded a voiceless linguolabial plosive [].[6][7]

Tan Huare (2015)

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Umotina consonants[8]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Occlusive plain p t k
voiced b
lab.
voiced lab.
Nasal m n
Fricative plain s ʃ h
voiced z ʒ
Tap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Pereira Lima (1995)

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Umotina consonants[9]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Occlusive p t k
Fricative plain ʃ
voiced z ʒ
Nasal m n
Tap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant w j

Vowels

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Umotina vowels[8][9]
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

References

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  1. 1 2 "Umutina - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  2. Camargos, L. S. (2013). Consolidando uma proposta de Família Linguística Boróro: contribuição aos estudos histórico-comparativos do Tronco Macro-Jê (Doctoral thesis) (in Portuguese). Universidade de Brasília..
  3. Cidele Cruz, Mônica (August 28, 2012). Povo Umutína: a busca da identidade linguística e cultural = Umutína people : the search of linguistic and cultural identity (Doutora em Linguística thesis) (in Portuguese). Campinas, SP: Universidade Estadual de Campinas. doi:10.47749/t/unicamp.2012.876888.
  4. Schultz, Harald (1952). "Vocabulario dos Indios Umutina". Journal de la société des américanistes. 41 (1): 81–137. doi:10.3406/jsa.1952.2400.
  5. Cruz, Mônica Cidele; Corozomae, Marcio Monzilar (July 12, 2015). "O ENSINO DE LÍNGUA MATERNA NA ESCOLA INDÍGENA JULÁ PARÉ". Revista ECOS (in Portuguese). 18 (1). ISSN 2316-3933.
  6. Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4): 683. doi:10.2307/411090. JSTOR 411090.
  7. Olson, Kenneth S.; Reiman, D. William; Sabio, Fernando; da Silva, Filipe Alberto (2013). "The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko". Journal of West African Languages. 42 (2): 63. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  8. 1 2 Tan Huare, Ducinéia (2015). Léxico remanescente Umutina: repertório linguístico de seus lembrantes (PDF) (masters thesis). Caceres: Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso.
  9. 1 2 Pereira Lima, Stella Telles (1995). A Língua Umutína: "um sopro de vida" (PDF) (masters thesis). Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.