Cinta Larga language

Cinta Larga is a Tupian dialect cluster of Brazil, the largest language of the Monde branch.

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Quick Facts Native to, Region ...

Cinta Larga
Native to	Brazil
Region	Mato Grosso
Ethnicity	Cinta Larga
Native speakers	650 (2012)^[1] mostly monolingual
Language family	Tupian Monde Cinta Larga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cin`
Glottolog	`cint1239`
ELP	Cinta Larga

According to Moore (2005), Arara do Rio Guariba (Guariba River Arara), spoken in the northern part of Aripuanã Indigenous Park, is closely related to the Cinta Larga dialect cluster, and also shares some features with Suruí.^[2] 26 words were collected by Hargreaves in 2001.^[3] It remains unclassified due to the lack of data.

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃
Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Open		a ã

Consonants

More information Labial, Dental ...

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
plain	pal.
Stop	p		t	tʲ		k	ʔ
Fricative	plain		s		ɕ
prenasal		ⁿz
Nasal	m		n	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant	w		l	j

More information Phoneme, Allophones ...

Phoneme	Allophones
/p/	[p], [pʰ], [pʼ], [p̚]
/t/	[t], [tʰ], [tʼ], [t̚], [ɾ]
/tʲ/	[tʲ], [tʰʲ], [ʲtʲ], [ʲt̚]
/k/	[k], [kʰ], [kʼ], [k̚]
/s/	[s̪], [θ]
/ⁿz/	[ⁿ̪z̪], [ⁿ̪ð]
/ɕ/	[ɕ], [tᶝʰ]
/m/	[m], [ᵐb], [b]
/n/	[n], [ⁿd], [d]
/ɲ/	[ɲ], [ʲɲ], [ʲɲʲ], [ɲʲ̃], [ᶮj̃], [ᶮʑ], [ɡᶽ]
/ŋ/	[ŋ], [ᵑɡ], [ɡ]
/w/	[w], [w̃]
/j/	[j], [j̃]

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Cinta Larga language

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

References

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