Iñapari is a critically endangered indigenous South American language spoken by just four people in Perú along the Las Piedras river near the mouth of the Sabaluyoq river. The language is already extinct in neighboring Bolivia. All four remaining speakers are bilingual in Spanish and none have any children, which will likely lead to its extinction once the speakers die. The Iñapari language currently has a published dictionary.[2]
The status of the lateral as a phoneme is considered dubious as [l] is found in few words and may be a phonetic variant of /r/.
Iñapari's six vowels are /i e a ï o u/, where /ï/ is a high back unrounded vowel.
NotesEdit
^Iñapari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ abParker, Steve (1999). "A Sketch of Iñapari Phonology". International Journal of American Linguistics. University of Chicago Press. 65 (1): 1–39. doi:10.1086/466374. JSTOR 1265971. S2CID 144667241.
External linksEdit
Ethnologue language map, Iñapari has reference number 40
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