Language name: |
TRUMAI |
UPSID number: |
6865 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
South American, Equatorial |
This language has |
24 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.418976349 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
tD
t
k
?
ts
f
h
x:
s
S
hm
nD
rD
lD
j
w
i
E
a
o
u
@
t<
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Comment: |
Trumai is spoken in the upper Xingu basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Stress is on the ultimate syllable of a root but is displaced onto a monosyllabic suffix. Nasals occur both voiced and voiceless but not contrastively, however the bilabial is reported to be much more frquently voiceless than the dental one. |
Source(s): |
Monod-Becquelin, A. 1975. La Pratique Linguistique des Indiens Trumai (Haut-Xingu, Mato Grosso, Bresil). CNRS. |