Japreria language
| Japrería | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Ethnicity | 216[1] |
Native speakers | 170 (2002 census)[2] |
Cariban
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jru |
| Glottolog | japr1238 |
| ELP | Japréria |
Japrería (Yapreria) is a Cariban language of Venezuela.
Orthography[]
- a - [a]
- ch/č - [t͡ʃ]
- e - [e]
- ë - [ə]
- i - [i]
- h/j - [h]
- j/x - [x]
- k/c/qu - [k]
- m - [m]
- n - [n]
- o - [o]
- p - [p]
- r - [ɾ]
- ŕ - [ʁ]
- s - [s]
- sh/š - [ʃ]
- t - [t]
- u - [u]
- ü/y/ɨ -[ɨ]
- v - [ʋ]
- y/j - [j] [3]
Phonology[]
Japreria has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.[4]
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | ||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||||
| Flap | ɾ |
References[]
- ^ Japreria language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Japrería at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Japreria language at Omniglot
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
Categories:
- Languages of Venezuela
- Cariban languages
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs