Nukini language
Appearance
Nukini | |
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Remo | |
Nukuini | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Acre |
Ethnicity | 600 (2012)[1] |
Extinct | late 20th century |
Panoan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nuc |
Glottolog | nuku1263 |
ELP | Nukini |
Nukini (Nukuini, Nuquini) is an obsolescent Panoan language of Brazil.[2] In some historical texts the Nukini are also referred to as Inucuini, Nucuiny, Nukuini, Nucuini, Inocú-inins and Remo.[3][4]
As a result of contact with outsiders, there are currently few who speak Nukini as a mother tongue. The Nukini stopped passing on the language to their descendants, and the current generation speaks Portuguese.[4]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Occlusive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
voiced | b | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Tap | ɾ | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | x | ||
voiced | v | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Nukini language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ W. Fleck, David (October 10, 2013). "Panoan Languages and Linguistics". Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (99): 11. doi:10.5531/sp.anth.0099 (inactive 3 April 2025). hdl:2246/6448.
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2025 (link) - ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- ^ a b "Nukini - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ Okidoi, Aline (2004). Descrição fonológica preliminar da língua indígena Nukini-Pano (masters thesis). Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.