Yanam | |
---|---|
Ninam | |
Native to | Brazil, Venezuela |
Native speakers | 470 in Brazil (2012)
[1] 560 in Venezuela (2010) (excluding Yaroamë) [1] |
Yanomam
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
shb |
Glottolog |
nina1238 |
ELP | Ninam |
Yanam, or Ninam, is a Yanomaman language spoken in Roraima, Brazil (800 speakers) and southern Venezuela near the Mucajai, upper Uraricaá, and Paragua rivers.
Yanam is also known by the following names: Ninam, Yanam–Ninam, Xirianá, Shiriana Casapare, Kasrapai, Jawaperi, Crichana, Jawari, Shiriana, Eastern Yanomaman.
Gordon (2009) reports 2 main varieties (Northern, Southern). Kaufman (1994) reports 3:
The name Jawari is shared with Yaroamë.
There are three dialects spoken in Roraima, Brazil according to Ferreira, et al. (2019): [2]
The remaining speakers of Arutani and Sapé also speak Ninam (Shirián), since they now mostly live in Ninam villages. [3] [4]
Yanam has seven base vowels. Yanam has both vowel length and nasalization, and both features can occur simultaneously, for all vowels except for /ɨ/. [5]
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | aspirated | |||||
Stop | p | t | tʰ | k | ||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Approximant | j | |||||
Flap | ɾ |
Yanam | |
---|---|
Ninam | |
Native to | Brazil, Venezuela |
Native speakers | 470 in Brazil (2012)
[1] 560 in Venezuela (2010) (excluding Yaroamë) [1] |
Yanomam
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
shb |
Glottolog |
nina1238 |
ELP | Ninam |
Yanam, or Ninam, is a Yanomaman language spoken in Roraima, Brazil (800 speakers) and southern Venezuela near the Mucajai, upper Uraricaá, and Paragua rivers.
Yanam is also known by the following names: Ninam, Yanam–Ninam, Xirianá, Shiriana Casapare, Kasrapai, Jawaperi, Crichana, Jawari, Shiriana, Eastern Yanomaman.
Gordon (2009) reports 2 main varieties (Northern, Southern). Kaufman (1994) reports 3:
The name Jawari is shared with Yaroamë.
There are three dialects spoken in Roraima, Brazil according to Ferreira, et al. (2019): [2]
The remaining speakers of Arutani and Sapé also speak Ninam (Shirián), since they now mostly live in Ninam villages. [3] [4]
Yanam has seven base vowels. Yanam has both vowel length and nasalization, and both features can occur simultaneously, for all vowels except for /ɨ/. [5]
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | a |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | aspirated | |||||
Stop | p | t | tʰ | k | ||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Approximant | j | |||||
Flap | ɾ |