Japreria language
Cariban language spoken in Venezuela
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Classification
It is debated whether or not Japreria is a dialect of Yukpa.[5] In anthropology, the Japreria people are treated as one of the subroups of the Yukpa people.[6] The Czech linguist Čestmír Loukotka (1968),[4] Haydée Seijas and Marshall Durbin (1977), and Mosonyi and Mosonyi (2000),[6] all treated Japreria as a dialect of Yukpa. However, the Ministry of Education, in a 1986 article, claimed that the Yukpa could not understand the Japreria.[7][6]
Phonology
- /ʋ/ is labiodental, while /m, p/ are bilabial.
