Marúbo language

Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.

Marúbo
Native to	Brazil
Region	Javari River basin
Ethnicity	Marúbo people
Native speakers	1,300 (2006)[1]
Language family	Panoan Mainline Panoan Nawa Marubo group Marúbo
Official status
Official language in	Brazil Amazonas[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzr
Glottolog	maru1252
ELP	Marubo

Status

The Marubo language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese.^[3]

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stop	p	t			k
Affricate		ts	tʃ
Fricative	v	s	ʃ
Nasal	m	n
Rhotic		ɾ
Approximant	w			j

• /v/ can be heard as either [v] or [β].

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Low		a ã

• /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