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Cubeo (Cuveo) is the language spoken by the Cubeo people in the Vaupés department, Cuduyari and Querarí rivers and tributaries in Colombia, and in Brazil and Venezuela.〔 It is a member of the central branch of the Tucanoan language family. Cubeo has borrowed a number of words from the Nadahup languages and its grammar has apparently been influenced by Arawak languages. The language has been variously described as having an SOV〔 or an OVS〔(WALS summary )〕 word order, the latter quite rare. == Phonetics and Phonology == Vowels There are 6 oral vowels and six nasal ones. (See if you are not familiar with this letter.) Consonants Unusually, Cubeo has a velar fricative /x/ but not strident fricatives. When older Cubeos use Spanish loans with /s/, they pronounce it as before vowels. The /s/ deletes in word-final position in loans as in < Sp. Jesús 'Jesus' (c.f. Venezuelan Spanish ).〔Morse & Maxwell 1999, p. 3〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cubeo language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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