Qymara
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Qymara | |
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Qymare Oya | |
Created by | Rafael Santos |
Native speakers | ca. 7,000,000 (2017) |
Aymor
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Qymara (English: [ kʷɪ'ma.rə ], Qymara: [ qy'mɑ.χɑ ]) it's an aymor language spoken in Brazilian northwest. It's the most conservative and widely spoken qymarian language. Its first texts were found in a cave near Rio Branco and were written in a logographic writing system that also uses phonetical information on the symbols, it's thought that writing system was inspired by the central-American writing systems, but no one knows how the two people group had contact.
Phonology
Vowels
Front | Back | |
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Close | y ỹ | |
Mid | e ẽ | o õ |
Open | ɑ ɑ̃ |
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Uvular | |
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ɴ |
Plosivel | p | t | c | q |
Aspirated Plosive | pʰ | tʰ | cʰ | qʰ |
Fricative | ɸ | s | ç | χ |
Approximant | l | ɥ |