Marúbo language
Panoan language of Brazil
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Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.
Status
The Marubo language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese.[3]
Phonology
Consonants
- /v/ can be heard as either [v] or [β].
Vowels
- /a, ɨ, u/ may also be heard as [ɐ, ɯ, ʊ].
- Vowels may also be nasalized when preceding nasal consonants.[4]
Grammar
Marubo is an agglutinative language with and SOV word order.[5] It has a graded tense system where what tense is used it determined by the distance in time between the time of reference (usually the time of speaking) and the time in which the mentioned even happened.[6] Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.[7]
Sample text
| English | Marubo[8] |
| In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. | Txitavíanamã, mai shoviti vevo,“Vana” atõ aká ivo ayase.a Aa Vanaro yora ikítõ ikí Yové Koĩnĩ nióti. Aaivo Vanaro Yové Koĩserívi |
