Puri language

Puri is an extinct language of eastern Brazil.

Puri
Native to	Brazil
Ethnicity	Puri people
Extinct	Late 19th century[1]
Language family	Macro-Gê Purian Puri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	prr
Glottolog	puri1262  Puri

In the 2010s, a Puri language revitalization project was launched in the indigenous village of Maraká’nà (Maracanã), Rio de Janeiro State.^[2]

Phonology

A hypothetical inventory of Puri, based on phonological data from various scholars, was created by Neto in 2007.^[3][4]

Consonants

Consonants of Puri

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	b ᵐp p	t			k
Nasal	m	n		ɲ
Sibilant affricate			t̠ʃ
Sibilant fricative			ʃ
Approximant				j
Tap/flap		ɾ

Vowels

Vowels of Puri

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ ?	u
Close-mid	e		o
Open		ä

References

1. Puri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. PURI, Txâma Xambé; PURI, Tutushamum; PURI, Xindêda. Kwaytikindo: retomada linguística Puri. In: Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas - RBLI. Macapá, v. 3, n. 2, p. 77-101. doi:10.18468/rbli.2020v3n2.p77-101
3. "Puri". South American Phonological Inventory Database (SAPhon v2.1.0). UC Berkeley. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
4. Neto, Ambrósio Pereira da Silva (2007). "Revisão da Classificaçao Da Família Lingüística Puri" (PDF): 23. Retrieved 23 November 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)