Cinta Larga is a Tupian dialect cluster of Brazil, the largest language of the Monde branch.

Cinta Larga
Native toBrazil
RegionMato Grosso
EthnicityCinta Larga
Native speakers
650 (2012)[1]
mostly monolingual
Tupian
Language codes
ISO 639-3cin
Glottologcint1239
ELPCinta Larga

According to Moore (2005), Arara do Rio Guariba (Guariba River Arara), spoken in the northern part of Aripuanã Indigenous Park, is closely related to the Cinta Larga dialect cluster, and also shares some features with Suruí.[2] 26 words were collected by Hargreaves in 2001.[3] It remains unclassified due to the lack of data.

Phonology

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Vowels

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Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃
Mid e ẽ o õ
Open a ã

Consonants

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Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
plain pal.
Stop p t k ʔ
Fricative plain s ɕ
prenasal ⁿz
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Approximant w l j
Phoneme Allophones
/p/ [p], [pʰ], [pʼ], [p̚]
/t/ [t], [tʰ], [tʼ], [t̚], [ɾ]
/tʲ/ [tʲ], [tʰʲ], [ʲtʲ], [ʲt̚]
/k/ [k], [kʰ], [kʼ], [k̚]
/s/ [s̪], [θ]
/ⁿz/ [ⁿ̪z̪], [ⁿ̪ð]
/ɕ/ [ɕ], [tᶝʰ]
/m/ [m], [ᵐb], [b]
/n/ [n], [ⁿd], [d]
/ɲ/ [ɲ], [ʲɲ], [ʲɲʲ], [ɲʲ̃], [ᶮj̃], [ᶮʑ], [ɡᶽ]
/ŋ/ [ŋ], [ᵑɡ], [ɡ]
/w/ [w], [w̃]
/j/ [j], [j̃]

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References

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  1. ^ Cinta Larga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  2. ^ Moore, Denny. 2005. Classificação interna da família lingüística Mondé. Estudos Lingüísticos 34: 515-520. (PDF)
  3. ^ Hargreaves, Inês. 2007. Lista de palavras transcritas por Inês Hargreaves, de dois grupos ao norte do Parque Aripuanã, RO. Manuscrito.
  4. ^ Sandberg, Patricia M. (1980). O sintagma nominal em Cinta Larga. Arquivos de Anatomia e Antropologia IV-V. pp. 283–295.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)