Oro Win

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A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3
orw
Alternate Names
Oto Towati
User Population

5 (Crevels 2012). Ethnic population: 56 (Crevels 2012).

Location

Rondônia state: Pacaás-Novos river headwaters, a tributary of Mamoré river.

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Language Status

8b (Nearly extinct).

Classification
Chapacuran, Wari
Dialects

None known. Not intelligible of Tora [trz], Itene (More) [ite], and Pakaasnovos (Wari) [pav].

Typology

VOS; 12 consonants and 5 vowels.

Language Use

Elderly only. Shifted to Pakaásnovos [pav].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Oro Win
Writing

Unwritten [Qaax].

Other Comments

Live among the Pakaasnovos [pav].