Japreria language

Japrería (Yapreria) is a Cariban language of Venezuela.

Japrería
Native to	Venezuela
Ethnicity	216[1]
Native speakers	170 (2002 census)[2]
Language family	Cariban (unclassified) Yupka Japrería
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jru
Glottolog	japr1238
ELP	Japréria[3]

Orthography

• a - [a]
• ch/č - [t͡ʃ]
• e - [e]
• ë - [ə]
• i - [i]
• h/j - [h]
• j/x - [x]
• k/c/qu - [k]
• m - [m]
• n - [n]
• o - [o]
• p - [p]
• r - [ɾ]
• ŕ - [ʁ]
• s - [s]
• sh/š - [ʃ]
• t - [t]
• u - [u]
• ü/y/ɨ -[ɨ]
• v - [ʋ]
• y/j - [j] [4]

Phonology

Japreria has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.[5]

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p		t			k		ʔ
Affricate				t͡ʃ
Fricative			s	ʃ				h
Nasal	m		n
Approximant		ʋ			j
Trill							ʀ
Flap			ɾ

References

1. Japreria language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. Japrería at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
3. Endangered Languages Project data for Japréria.
4. Japreria language at Omniglot
5. "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-14.