# Oro Win language > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Oro_Win_language > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Oro_Win_language.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oro_Win_language > Source revision: 1323962499 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Moribund Chapacuran language of Brazil}} {{Infobox language | name = Oro Win | region = [Rondônia](/source/Rond%C3%B4nia) | ethnicity = 55 Oro Win (1998) | speakers = 5 | date = 2011 | ref = e18 | familycolor = American | fam1 = [Chapacuran](/source/Chapacuran) | fam2 = Wari | iso3 = orw | glotto = orow1243 | glottorefname = Oro Win | notice = IPA | states = [Brazil](/source/Brazil) | altname = | nativename = {{lang|orw|Oro Towati'}} | map2 = Lang Status 20-CR.svg | mapcaption2 = {{center|Oro Win is classified as Critically Endangered by the [UNESCO](/source/UNESCO) ''[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger](/source/Atlas_of_the_World's_Languages_in_Danger)''.}} }} '''Oro Win''' is a [moribund](/source/moribund_language) [Chapacuran language](/source/Chapacura-Wanham_languages) spoken along the upper stretches of the [Pacaás Novos River](/source/Paca%C3%A1s_Novos_River) in [Brazil](/source/Brazil).{{Cite web |title=Oro Win - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil |url=https://pib.socioambiental.org/en/Povo:Oro_Win |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=pib.socioambiental.org}} As of 2010, there were only six known speakers of Oro Win in Brazil, and all of them were over 50 years of age.{{cite web|last=Birchall|first=Joshua|title=Oro Win Language|url=http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/oro-win/2237|publisher=Programa Povos Indígenas no Brasil do Instituto|access-date=2012-12-30}} However, other reports dictate that there are 12 speakers as of 2015, and there are efforts to increase use of Oro Win among the community.{{Cite web |title=Did you know Orowari is critically endangered? |url=https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/elp-language/1741 |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=Endangered Languages |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Tondineli |first=Patrícia Goulart |url=https://edufro.unir.br/uploads/08899242/Colecao%20pos%20UNIR/02%20Revitalizar%20linguas.pdf |title=(Re)vitalizar línguas minorizadas e/ou ameaçadas: teorias, metodologias, pesquisas e experiências |date=2021 |publisher=EDITORA DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE RONDÔNIA - EDUFRO |isbn=978-65-87539-61-4 |edition=1 |doi=10.47209/978-65-87539-61-4 |doi-broken-date=19 August 2025 }} == Phonology == Oro Win is one of only five languages known to make use of a [voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop](/source/Voiceless_bilabially_post-trilled_dental_stop), {{IPA|[t͡ʙ̥]}}. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+Vowels{{SAPhon|OroWin|Oro Win}} ! !Front !Back |- !Close |{{IPA link|i}} | |- !Near-close |{{IPA link|ʏ}} | |- !Close-mid |{{IPA link|e}} |{{IPA link|o}} |- !Open |{{IPA link|a}} | |} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+Consonants ! ![Bilabial](/source/Bilabial_consonant) ![Dental](/source/Dental_consonant) ![Alveolar](/source/Alveolar_consonant) ![Palatal](/source/Palatal_consonant) ![Velar](/source/Velar_consonant) ![Glottal](/source/Glottal_consonant) |- ![Stop](/source/Stop_consonant) |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t̪ʙ}} |{{IPA link|t}} | |{{IPA link|k}} |{{IPA link|ʔ}} |- ![Fricative](/source/Fricative) |{{IPA link|ɸ}} | |{{IPA link|s}} | | | |- ![Nasal](/source/Nasal_consonant) |{{IPA link|m}} | |{{IPA link|n}} | | | |- ![Flap](/source/Flap_consonant) | | |{{IPA link|ɾ}} | | | |- ![Semivowel](/source/Semivowel) | | | |{{IPA link|j}} |{{IPA link|w}} | |} == Vocabulary == {{IPA|[tʙ̥otʙ̥ok inan]}} 'I walk on logs' {{IPA|[kotʙ̥ok inan]}} 'I start a motor' {{IPA|[katʙ̥ʉ na]}} 'It is an owl' {{IPA|[tʙ̥untʙʉ na]}} 'It is a helicopter' {{IPA|[tʙ̥um]}} 'small boy'{{Cite web |title=Word List for Oro Win |url=https://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/ORW/orw_word-list_1995_01.html |access-date=2025-11-24 |website=archive.phonetics.ucla.edu}} == References == {{Reflist}} ==Bibliography== * [Everett, Daniel](/source/Daniel_Everett); & Kern, B. (1996). ''Wari’: The Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil''. London: Routledge. * [Ladefoged, Peter](/source/Peter_Ladefoged); [Everett, Daniel](/source/Daniel_Everett). (1996). The status of phonetic rarities. ''Language'', ''72'' (4), 794–800. ==External links== *[http://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/povo/oro-win Oro Win: Povos Indígenas no Brasil - Instituto Socioambiental] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20020307004353/http://www.pitt.edu/utimes/issues/27/101394/16.html Linguistics Professor Discovers New Language in Brazilian Rain Forest]. Pittsburgh University Times v. 27 n. 4 (1994). (offline, but see this [http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@sus.csuchico.edu/msg11747.html copy]) *[http://phonetics.ucla.edu/appendix/languages/orowin/orowin.html UCLA Phonetics Lab Data] – recordings of {{IPA|[t͡ʙ̥]}} in Oro Win. {{Chapacuran languages}} {{Languages of Brazil}} Category:Chapacuran languages Category:Endangered Chapacuran languages {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Oro Win language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oro_Win_language) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oro_Win_language?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.