Oro Win language
Moribund Chapacuran language of Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.
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Oro Win | |
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Region | Brazil |
Ethnicity | 55 (1998)[1] |
Native speakers | 5 (2011)[2] |
Chapacuran
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | orw |
Glottolog | orow1243 |
ELP | Orowari |
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Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, [t͡ʙ̥].
As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.[3]