Oro Win language

Oro Win is a moribund Chapacuran language spoken along the upper stretches of the Pacaás Novos River in Brazil.

Oro Win
RegionBrazil
Ethnicity55 (1998)
Native speakers
5 (2011)
Chapacuran
  • Wari
    • Oro Win
Language codes
ISO 639-3orw
Glottologorow1243
ELPOrowari

Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop, [t͡ʙ̥].

As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.

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