Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil. As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age. However, other reports dictate that there are 12 speakers as of 2015, and there are efforts to increase use of Oro Win among the community.

Phonology

Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, .

Vocabulary

'I walk on logs'

'I start a motor'

'It is an owl'

'It is a helicopter'

'small boy'

References

Bibliography

• Everett, Daniel; & Kern, B. (1996). Wari’: The Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil. London: Routledge.

• Ladefoged, Peter; Everett, Daniel. (1996). The status of phonetic rarities. Language, 72 (4), 794–800.

External links

• Oro Win: Povos Indígenas no Brasil - Instituto Socioambiental

• Linguistics Professor Discovers New Language in Brazilian Rain Forest. Pittsburgh University Times v. 27 n. 4 (1994). (offline, but see this copy)

• UCLA Phonetics Lab Data – recordings of in Oro Win.