Uru

Otros nombres

Uchumataqu

Código de lengua

ure

Localización

16°37'12"S 68°58'12"W

Familia

Uru-Chipaya

Consonantes	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glotal
Oclusiva aspirada	pʰ	tʰ			kʰ	qʰ
Oclusiva laringealizada	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ	qʼ
Oclusiva sorda	p	t tʷ			k kʷ	q
Africada		ts	tʃ
Fricativa		s			x		ɦ
Nasal	m	n
Aproximante				j	w
Vibrante multiple		r
Lateral		l		ʎ

Vocales	Anterior	Central	Posterior
Cerrada	i iː		u uː
Intermedia	e eː		o oː
Abierta		a aː

Suprasegmental

Ninguno

Bibliografía

Muysken, Pieter. 2000. Drawn into the Aymara mold? Notes on Uru grammar. In Hein van der Voort & Simon van de Kerke (eds.), Essays on the Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America, 99-109. Leiden: CNWS publications.

Hannß, Katja. 2008. Uchumataqu, the lost language of the Urus of Bolivia: A grammatical description of the language as documented between 1894 and 1952 (Indigenous Languages of Latin America 7). Leiden: CNWS publications.

Hannß, Katja. to appear. Uru and Chipaya. In Matthias Urban (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes. Oxford University Press.

Notas

This inventory reflects that found in Hannß (2008) since that source relies on a range of previous sources. The symbol /k̪/ represents a dentalized velar stop.