Tamanaku language

Tamanaku (Tamanaku: Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.

Tamanaku
Tamañkú
Native to	Venezuela
Region	Amazonas
Extinct	20th century[1]
Language family	Cariban Venezuelan Carib Mapoyo–Tamanaku Tamanaku
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tmz
Linguist List	tmz.html
Glottolog	tama1338

The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by Gilij in 1780, from his 20-year stay among the Tamanku beginning around 1750.^[2]

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p	t		k	ʔ
Affricate			ts (dz)
Fricative	[β]				[h]
Nasal	m	n	[ɲ]
Liquid		r [l]
Approximant	w		j

Stops may have voiced allophones of [b d ɡ]. Allophones of /p, n, r/ include [β h ɲ l].^[3]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Mid	e ẽ	ə ə̃	o õ
Low		a ã