Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.
Status The Marubo language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese.
Phonology Consonants LabialAlveolarPost-alveolarPalatalVelarStopAffricateFricativeNasalRhoticApproximant
/v/ can be heard as either [v] or [β].
Vowels FrontCentralBackHigh Low
/a, ɨ, u/ may also be heard as [ɐ, ɯ, ʊ]. Vowels may also be nasalized when preceding nasal consonants.
Grammar Marubo is an agglutinative language with and SOV word order. 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. Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.
Sample text EnglishMaruboIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
References
External links
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America - Wordlist & Songs