Nukini language
Nukini (Nukuini, Nuquini) is an obsolescent Panoan language of Brazil.[2] In some historical texts the Nukini are also referred to as Inucuini, Nucuiny, Nukuini, Nucuini, Inocú-inins and Remo.[3][4]
As a result of contact with outsiders, there are currently few who speak Nukini as a mother tongue. The Nukini stopped passing on the language to their descendants, and the current generation speaks Portuguese.[4]
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | x | ||
| voiced | v | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Notes
- ^ Nukini language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ W. Fleck, David (October 10, 2013). "Panoan Languages and Linguistics". Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (99): 11. doi:10.5531/sp.anth.0099 (inactive 3 April 2025). hdl:2246/6448.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2025 (link) - ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- ^ a b "Nukini - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ Okidoi, Aline (2004). Descrição fonológica preliminar da língua indígena Nukini-Pano (masters thesis). Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.