Pémono language

Pémono
Pémono
Native to	Venezuela
Extinct	after 2000
Language family	Cariban Central Mapoyo Pémono; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pev
Glottolog	pemo1245

Pémono is a Cariban language or dialect of Mapoyo language that was spoken by only an eighty-year-old woman when discovered in 1998 in Venezuela. The ethnic population now speaks Spanish. It became extinct some time after that.^[1]

Phonology

Pemono has an identical phonology to Mapoyo:^[1]

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p	t		k	ʔ
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Fricative		s			h
Rhotic		ɾ
Approximant	w		j

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ɘ	o
Low		a

References

1 2 Mattei-Muller, Marie-Claude (2003). "Pémono: eslabón perdido entre mapoyo y yawarana: lenguas caribes ergativas de la Guayana noroccidental de Venezuela" (PDF). Amérindia: revue d'ethnolinguistique amérindienne. 28: 33–54.

External links

Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]}

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[:0-1] 1 2 Mattei-Muller, Marie-Claude (2003). "Pémono: eslabón perdido entre mapoyo y yawarana: lenguas caribes ergativas de la Guayana noroccidental de Venezuela" (PDF). Amérindia: revue d'ethnolinguistique amérindienne. 28: 33–54.

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