Language name: |
MOVIMA |
UPSID number: |
6860 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
South American, Macro-Tucanoan |
This language has |
23 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.479996144 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
t
k
kW
?
b<
d<
tS
h
B
s.
hlF
m
n
r[
l
j
w
i
"e
a
"o
u
|
Comment: |
Movima is spoken in the Santa Ana region of Beni department, Bolivia. Judy & Judy (1962) also recognize two "glottalized nasals" which only occur as codas often as phonetic glottal stop + syllabic nasal. They are interpreted as sequences /?m, ?n/. Stress is usually penultimate. |
Source(s): |
Judy, R. and Judy J.E. de, 1962. Fonemas del Movima: con atencion especial a la serie glotal. Notas Linguisticas de Bolivia, no. 5. SILV, Cochabamba. |