Nukini language
Appearance
Nukini | |
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Remo | |
Nukuini | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Acre |
Ethnicity | 600 (2012)[1] |
Extinct | late 20th century[1] |
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 (Fleck 2013).[full citation needed] In some historical texts the Nukini are also referred to as Inucuini, Nucuiny, Nukuini, Nucuini, Inocú-inins and Remo.[2][3]
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.[3]
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]- ^ a b Nukini at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ 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.