Itene language

Itene
Itene
Moré
Native to	Bolivia
Region	Beni Department
Native speakers	45 (2012–2020)
Language family	Chapacuran Moré languages Itene; ;
Dialects	Itoreauhip;
Official status
Official language in	Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ite
Glottolog	iten1243
ELP	Itene
	Moré is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Itene (Moré) is a Chapacuran language of Bolivia, spoken by 76 people, including 21 actively, in 1995.^[2] Itoreauhip is a dialect.

Phonology

		Labial		Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
		plain	lab.	plain	pal.	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	pʷ̥	t	tʲ̥	t̠̻	(c)	k	ʔ
	preglottal	ˀ͡ᵖp	ˀ͡ᵖʷ̥pʷ̥	ˀ͡ᵗt	ˀ͡ᵗʲtʲ̥			ˀ͡ᵏk
	bilabial postvibrant			t𐞄̥
Nasal	voiced	m	mʷ	n			ɲ
	preglottal	ˀ͡ᵐ̥m	ˀ͡ᵐ̥ʷ̥mʷ	ˀ͡ⁿ̥n			ˀ͡ᶮ̥ɲ
	glottalized	mˀ͡ᵐ̥		nˀ͡ⁿ̥			ɲˀ͡ᶮ̥
Fricative		β		s		ʒ̟
Approximant	plain	w					j		h
	preglottal	ˀ͡ʷ̥w					ˀ͡ʲ̥j
	glottalized	wˀ͡ʷ̥					jˀ͡ʲ̥

All plosives are realized as unreleased [C̚] word-finally.
/p/ is heard as [ɸ] in initial position before /u/.
/t/ can be heard as a tap [ɾ] between vowels.
/k/ is palatalized to [c] when following /i/, and as [cᶜ̧] when preceding /i/ in initial position.
/k/ and /ˀ͡ᵏk/ are heard as [kˣ] and [ˀ͡ᵏkˣ] when in initial position in free variation.
/tʲ̥/ and /ˀ͡ᵗʲtʲ̥/ are heard as post-fricativized [t̠ᶴ] and [ˀ͡ᵗt̠ᶴ] when in initial positions.
/ʒ̟/ is heard as a lateral [ɮ] in word-final position.
/w/ is heard as [β] when after /ɛ/.
/t/ and /s/ lose their phonemic contrast in the coda position, being neutralized to [t̚].^[3]

↑ Itene at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ Angenot, Geralda de Lima Vitor (2013-08-23). "FONOTÁTICA E FONOLOGIA DO LEXEMA PROTOCHAPAKURA". Revista Eletrônica Língua Viva (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 (1). ISSN 2237-9800.
↑ Angenot-de-Lima, Geralda (2002). Description Phonologique, Grammaticale et Lexicale du Moré, Langue Amazonienne de Bolivie et du Brésil (PDF). Vol. 1. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden dissertation. p. 67.