Marúbo language

Marúbo is a Panoan language of Brazil.

Status

The Marubo language is considered threatened due to competition with Portuguese.

Phonology

Consonants

/v/ can be heard as either or .
Vowels
/a, ɨ, u/ may also be heard as .
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 and the time in which the mentioned even happened. Marubo, unlike most Panoan languages, does not have prefixes to refer to various body parts.

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