Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.
| Oro Win | |
|---|---|
| Region | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | 55 (1998)[1] |
Native speakers | 5 (2011)[2] |
Language family | 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]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | |
| Near-close | ʏ | |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t̪ʙ̥ | t | k | ʔ | |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Semivowel | j | w |
Chapacuran languages | |
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