en.unionpedia.org

Leco language, the Glossary

Leco, also written as Leko, is a language isolate that, though long reported to be extinct, is spoken by 20–40 individuals in areas east of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.^[1]

43 relations: Affricate, Agglutinative language, Alveolar consonant, Apolo, La Paz, Approximant, Arawakan languages, Aspirated consonant, Aymara language, Aymaran languages, Čestmír Loukotka, Bilabial consonant, Bolivia, Culle language, Departments of Bolivia, Ejective consonant, Franz Tamayo Province, Fricative, Glottal consonant, Hibito–Cholon languages, International Congress of Americanists, La Paz Department (Bolivia), Lake Titicaca, Language isolate, Larecaja Province, Leco people, Maize, Mapiri River, Nasal consonant, Omurano language, Plosive, Postalveolar consonant, Pro-drop language, Puquina language, Quechuan languages, Sechura–Catacao languages, Sibilant, Suffix, Tap and flap consonants, Taushiro language, Urarina language, Velar consonant, Voice (phonetics), Wiktionary.
Endangered language isolates

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

See Leco language and Affricate

Agglutinative language

An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination.

See Leco language and Agglutinative language

Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

See Leco language and Alveolar consonant

Apolo, La Paz

Apolo is a location in the Franz Tamayo Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia, South America, with a population of 2,123 in the year 2001.

See Leco language and Apolo, La Paz

Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

See Leco language and Approximant

Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America.

See Leco language and Arawakan languages

Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

See Leco language and Aspirated consonant

Aymara language

Aymara (also Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. Leco language and Aymara language are languages of Bolivia.

See Leco language and Aymara language

Aymaran languages

Aymaran (also Jaqi or Aru) is one of the two dominant language families in the central Andes alongside Quechuan.

See Leco language and Aymaran languages

Čestmír Loukotka

Čestmír Loukotka (12 November 1895 – 13 April 1966) was a Czechoslovak linguist and ethnologist.

See Leco language and Čestmír Loukotka

Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

See Leco language and Bilabial consonant

Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

See Leco language and Bolivia

Culle language

Culle, also spelled Culli, Cullí, or Kulyi, is a poorly attested extinct language of the Andean highlands of northern Peru. Leco language and Culle language are language isolates of South America.

See Leco language and Culle language

Departments of Bolivia

Bolivia is a unitary state consisting of nine departments (departamentos).

See Leco language and Departments of Bolivia

Ejective consonant

In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream.

See Leco language and Ejective consonant

Franz Tamayo Province

Franz Tamayo is a province in the Bolivian department of La Paz.

See Leco language and Franz Tamayo Province

Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Leco language and Fricative

Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

See Leco language and Glottal consonant

Hibito–Cholon languages

The extinct Hibito–Cholón or Cholónan languages form a proposed language family that links two languages of Peru, Hibito and Cholón.

See Leco language and Hibito–Cholon languages

International Congress of Americanists

The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) is an international academic conference for research in multidisciplinary studies of the Americas.

See Leco language and International Congress of Americanists

La Paz Department (Bolivia)

The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises with a 2012 census population of 2,706,359 inhabitants.

See Leco language and La Paz Department (Bolivia)

Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca; Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru.

See Leco language and Lake Titicaca

Language isolate

A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages.

See Leco language and Language isolate

Larecaja Province

Larecaja is a province in the Bolivian La Paz Department.

See Leco language and Larecaja Province

Leco people

The Leco People are an ethnic group in Bolivia that live in the Bolivian Amazon region, in the western part of the country.

See Leco language and Leco people

Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

See Leco language and Maize

Mapiri River

Mapiri River is a river of Amapá state in Brazil.

See Leco language and Mapiri River

Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

See Leco language and Nasal consonant

Omurano language

Omurano is an unclassified language from Peru. Leco language and Omurano language are language isolates of South America.

See Leco language and Omurano language

Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

See Leco language and Plosive

Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

See Leco language and Postalveolar consonant

Pro-drop language

A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically inferable.

See Leco language and Pro-drop language

Puquina language

Puquina (or Pukina) is a small, putative language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, which consists of the extinct Puquina language and Kallawaya, although it is assumed that the latter is just a remnant of the former mixed with Quechuan. Leco language and Puquina language are language isolates of South America and languages of Bolivia.

See Leco language and Puquina language

Quechuan languages

Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.

See Leco language and Quechuan languages

Sechura–Catacao languages

Sechura–Catacao is a proposed connection between the small Catacaoan language family of Peru and the language isolate Sechura (Sek).

See Leco language and Sechura–Catacao languages

Sibilant

Sibilants (from sībilāns: 'hissing') are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.

See Leco language and Sibilant

Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

See Leco language and Suffix

Tap and flap consonants

In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.

See Leco language and Tap and flap consonants

Taushiro language

Taushiro, also known as Pinche or Pinchi, is a nearly extinct possible language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon near Ecuador. Leco language and Taushiro language are Endangered language isolates and language isolates of South America.

See Leco language and Taushiro language

Urarina language

Urarina is an language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. Leco language and Urarina language are Endangered language isolates and language isolates of South America.

See Leco language and Urarina language

Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

See Leco language and Velar consonant

Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

See Leco language and Voice (phonetics)

Wiktionary

Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

See Leco language and Wiktionary

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leco_language

Also known as ISO 639:lec.

Leco language, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Endangered language isolates

References