Minica (Mɨnɨka) Huitoto is one of three indigenous American Huitoto languages of the Witotoan family spoken by a few thousand speakers in western South America.[1]
| Minica Huitoto | |
|---|---|
| Mɨnɨka | |
| Native to | Colombia, Perú |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2008)[1] |
Bora–Witoto
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hto |
| Glottolog | mini1256 |
| ELP | Minica Huitoto |
 | |
It is spoken in the Upper Igara-Paraná river area, along the Caquetá River at the Isla de los Monos, and the Caguán River near San Vicente del Caguán. There is 75% literacy in Colombia and 85% are literate in Spanish; most are bilingual. There is a dictionary and grammar rules.[1]
There are only five speakers in Perú, where it has official standing within its community.[1]
Phonology
editVowels
edit| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɯ | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | |||
Consonants
edit| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | θ | x | ||
| voiced | β | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
- Stops /b, d, ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] in word-initial position.
- Labial consonants /b, ɸ, m/ may also be heard as labialized [bʷ, ɸʷ, mʷ] before the back-close vowel /ɯ/.[2]
Writing system
edit| a | b | c | ch | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | ll | m | n | ñ | ng | o | p | q | r | t | u | v | ɨ | z |
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d Minica Huitoto at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Ávila, Youlín (2018). Las vocales en sílabas CV orales acentuadas del mɨnɨka hablado en Bogotá: una descripción fonética acústica. Bogotá, Colombia: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. pp. 16–17.
- ^ "Vocabulario bilingüe: huitoto-español, español-huitoto (dialecto mɨnɨca)". SIL International. 24 January 2013.
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