Tamanaku language

Tamanaku
Native to	Venezuela
Extinct	(date missing)[1]
Language family	Cariban Venezuelan Carib Mapoyo–Tamanaku Tamanaku; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tmz
Glottolog	tama1338

Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.

Phonology

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p	t		k	ʔ
Affricate			ts (dz)
Fricative	[β]				[h]
Nasal	m	n	[ɲ]
Liquid		r [l]
Approximant	w		j

Stops may have voiced allophones of [b d ɡ]. Allophones of /p, n, r/ include [β h ɲ l].[2]

Tamanaku at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Melles, Gavin (1991). Reseña: Marie Claude Mattéi-Muller y P. Henley - Los tamanaku: su lengua, su vida.

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