Japrería
Native toVenezuela
Ethnicity160 (2011)[1]
Native speakers
170 (2002 census)[1]
Cariban
  • (unclassified)
    • Yupka
      • Japrería
Language codes
ISO 639-3jru
Glottologjapr1238
ELPJapréria

Japrería (Yapreria) is a Cariban language of Venezuela.

Phonology

The orthography, if different from the IPA, is represented in angled brackets.

Consonants[2][3]
Labial Alveolar Post-alveolar Dorsal Glottal
Nasal m n
Stop/

Affricate

p t t͡ʃ ch/č k k/c/qu ʔ

unknown

Fricative s ʃ sh/š h h/j
Approximant ʋ v j y/j
Rhotic ɾ r ʀ ŕ

/ʋ/ is labiodental, while /m, p/ are bilabial.

Vowels[2]
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ ü/y/ɨ u
Open e a o

References

  1. 1 2 Japrería at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. 1 2 "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  3. Japreria language at Omniglot


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