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Urarina language, the Glossary

Urarina is an language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people.^[1]

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Endangered language isolates
Indigenous languages of Western Amazonia
Object–verb–subject languages

Amazonian manatee

The Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) is a species of manatee that lives in the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador.

See Urarina language and Amazonian manatee

Amazonic Spanish (español amazónico), also known as Charapa Spanish, Loreto-Ucayali Spanish or informally known in Peru simply as Jungle Spanish (español de la selva), is a variety of Spanish spoken in the Amazon, especially in the Peruvian provinces of Loreto, San Martín and Ucayali.

See Urarina language and Amazonic Spanish

Amerind languages

Amerind is a hypothetical higher-level language family proposed by Joseph Greenberg in 1960 and elaborated by his student Merritt Ruhlen.

See Urarina language and Amerind languages

Anacardiaceae

The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species.

See Urarina language and Anacardiaceae

Annatto

Annatto is an orange-red condiment and food coloring derived from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana), native to tropical parts of the Americas.

See Urarina language and Annatto

Apiaceae

Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium, and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers.

See Urarina language and Apiaceae

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 Urarina language and Approximant

Araceae

The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix.

See Urarina language and Araceae

Arapaima gigas

Arapaima gigas, also known as pirarucu or simply arapaima, is a species of arapaima native to the basin of the Amazon River.

See Urarina language and Arapaima gigas

Arapaiminae

Arapaiminae is a subfamily of freshwater osteoglossiform (bony-tongued) fishes belonging to the family Osteoglossidae.

See Urarina language and Arapaiminae

Arawakan languages

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. Urarina language and Arawakan languages are indigenous languages of Western Amazonia.

See Urarina language and Arawakan languages

Arecaceae

The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.

See Urarina language and Arecaceae

Astrocaryum chambira

Astrocaryum chambira, the chambira palm or chambira, is a large and spiny palm native to the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela that is mostly known for its commercial value as a fiber crop.

See Urarina language and Astrocaryum chambira

Astrocaryum murumuru

Astrocaryum murumuru (Portuguese common name: murumuru) is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil, which bears edible fruits.

See Urarina language and Astrocaryum murumuru

Čestmír Loukotka

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

See Urarina language and Čestmír Loukotka

Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

See Urarina language and Back vowel

Bactris gasipaes

Bactris gasipaes is a species of palm native to the tropical forests of Central and South America.

See Urarina language and Bactris gasipaes

Banisteriopsis caapi

Banisteriopsis caapi, also known as, caapi, soul vine, yagé (yage), or ayahuasca, the latter of which also refers to the psychedelic decoction made with the vine and a plant source of dimethyltryptamine, is a South American liana of the family Malpighiaceae.

See Urarina language and Banisteriopsis caapi

Bixa orellana

Bixa orellana, also known as achiote, is a shrub or small tree native to Central America.

See Urarina language and Bixa orellana

Bixaceae

The Bixaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants commonly called the achiote family.

See Urarina language and Bixaceae

Black-headed night monkey

The black-headed night monkey (Aotus nigriceps) is a night monkey species from South America.

See Urarina language and Black-headed night monkey

Boat-billed heron

The boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), colloquially known as the boatbill, is an atypical member of the heron family.

See Urarina language and Boat-billed heron

Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae were long recognised as a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae.

See Urarina language and Bombacaceae

Bothrops atrox

Bothrops atrox — also known as the common lancehead, fer-de-lance, barba amarillaCampbell JA, Lamar WW.

See Urarina language and Bothrops atrox

Brachyplatystoma filamentosum

Brachyplatystoma filamentosum, commonly called piraíba, kumakuma, valentón or lau lau, is a species of catfish of the family Pimelodidae and genus Brachyplatystoma that is native to Amazon and Orinoco River basins and rivers in Guianas and northeastern Brazil.

See Urarina language and Brachyplatystoma filamentosum

Breadfruit

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry and jackfruit family (Moraceae) believed to be a domesticated descendant of Artocarpus camansi originating in New Guinea, the Maluku Islands, and the Philippines. It was initially spread to Oceania via the Austronesian expansion.

See Urarina language and Breadfruit

Brugmansia

Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

See Urarina language and Brugmansia

Cabralea

Cabralea is a genus of trees in the family Meliaceae.

See Urarina language and Cabralea

Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

See Urarina language and Cassava

Ceiba pentandra

Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var guineensis) West Africa.

See Urarina language and Ceiba pentandra

Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

See Urarina language and Central vowel

Chambira River

The Chambira River is a major tributary of the Marañón River, and has been the traditional territory of the Urarina peoples for at least the past 350 years.

See Urarina language and Chambira River

Characidae

Characidae, the characids or characins, is a family of freshwater subtropical and tropical fish belonging to the order Characiformes.

See Urarina language and Characidae

Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

See Urarina language and Close vowel

Collared peccary

The collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed) mammal in the family Tayassuidae found in North, Central, and South America.

See Urarina language and Collared peccary

Colombian red howler

The Colombian red howler or Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus) is a South American species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in the western Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

See Urarina language and Colombian red howler

Common woolly monkey

The common woolly monkey, brown woolly monkey, or Humboldt's woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha) is a woolly monkey from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela.

See Urarina language and Common woolly monkey

Convolvulaceae

Convolvulaceae, commonly called the bindweeds or morning glories, is a family of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species.

See Urarina language and Convolvulaceae

Coussapoa

Coussapoa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Urticaceae.

See Urarina language and Coussapoa

Crax

Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds.

See Urarina language and Crax

Cyperaceae

The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.

See Urarina language and Cyperaceae

Datura

Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae).

See Urarina language and Datura

Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

See Urarina language and Dental consonant

Department of Loreto

Loreto is Peru's northernmost department and region.

See Urarina language and Department of Loreto

Dioscorea trifida

Dioscorea trifida is a species of flowering plant in the family Dioscoreaceae.

See Urarina language and Dioscorea trifida

Dioscoreaceae

Dioscoreaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 715 known species in nine genera.

See Urarina language and Dioscoreaceae

Driftwood catfish

The driftwood catfishes are catfishes of the family Auchenipteridae.

See Urarina language and Driftwood catfish

Eastern lowland olingo

The eastern lowland olingo (Bassaricyon alleni) is a species of olingo from South America, where it is known from the lowlands east of the Andes in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela.

See Urarina language and Eastern lowland olingo

Eryngium foetidum

Eryngium foetidum is a tropical perennial herb in the family Apiaceae.

See Urarina language and Eryngium foetidum

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants.

See Urarina language and Euphorbiaceae

Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

See Urarina language and Fabaceae

Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

See Urarina language and Ficus

Fricative

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

See Urarina language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

See Urarina language and Front vowel

Giant anteater

The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) is an insectivorous mammal native to Central and South America.

See Urarina language and Giant anteater

Giant armadillo

The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), colloquially tatu-canastra, tatou, ocarro or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo (although their extinct relatives, the glyptodonts, were much larger).

See Urarina language and Giant armadillo

Glottal consonant

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

See Urarina language and Glottal consonant

Great egret

The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret.

See Urarina language and Great egret

Grey-cowled wood rail

The grey-cowled wood rail or grey-necked wood rail (Aramides cajaneus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae, the rails.

See Urarina language and Grey-cowled wood rail

Grey-winged trumpeter

The grey-winged trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is a member of a small family of birds, the Psophiidae.

See Urarina language and Grey-winged trumpeter

Gynerium

Gynerium is a monotypic genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, native to Mexico and Colombia, Central America, South America, and the West Indies.

See Urarina language and Gynerium

Hog plum

Hog plum is a common name for several plants that produce edible fruit, and may refer to.

See Urarina language and Hog plum

Icterid

Icterids or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae, of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds.

See Urarina language and Icterid

Inga edulis

Inga edulis, known as ice-cream bean, ice-cream-bean, joaquiniquil, cuaniquil (both from Nahuatl: cuahuxinicuile combining cuahuitl "tree"; icxitl "feet" and necuilli "crooked") guama or guaba, is a fruit native to South America.

See Urarina language and Inga edulis

Ipomoea

Ipomoea is the largest genus in the plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 600 species.

See Urarina language and Ipomoea

Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas.

See Urarina language and Jaguar

Kinkajou

The kinkajou (/ˈkɪŋkədʒuː/ ''KING-kə-joo''; Potos flavus) is a tropical rainforest mammal of the family Procyonidae related to olingos, coatis, raccoons, and the ringtail and cacomistle.

See Urarina language and Kinkajou

Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

See Urarina language and Labial consonant

Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

See Urarina language and Labialization

Language isolate

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

See Urarina language and Language isolate

Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

See Urarina language and Latin script

Leco language

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. Urarina language and Leco language are Endangered language isolates and language isolates of South America.

See Urarina language and Leco language

Macro-Jibaro languages

The Macro-Jibaro proposal, also known as (Macro-)Andean, is a language proposal of Morris Swadesh and other historical linguists.

See Urarina language and Macro-Jibaro languages

Malpighiaceae

Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales.

See Urarina language and Malpighiaceae

Mauritia flexuosa

Mauritia flexuosa, known as the moriche palm, ité palm, ita, buriti, muriti, miriti (Brazil), canangucho (Colombia), morete or acho (Ecuador), or aguaje (Peru), is a palm tree.

See Urarina language and Mauritia flexuosa

Meliaceae

Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales.

See Urarina language and Meliaceae

Metynnis

Metynnis is a genus of serrasalmid fish from tropical and subtropical South America.

See Urarina language and Metynnis

Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

See Urarina language and Mid vowel

Mitú

Mitú is the capital town of the department of Vaupés in Colombia.

See Urarina language and Mitú

Moraceae

The Moraceae—often called the mulberry family or fig family—are a family of flowering plants comprising about 38 genera and over 1100 species.

See Urarina language and Moraceae

Morning glory

Morning glory (also written as morning-glory) is the common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, whose current taxonomy and systematics are in flux.

See Urarina language and Morning glory

Musa (genus)

Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae.

See Urarina language and Musa (genus)

Myleus

Myleus is a genus of serrasalmids from South America, where found in the Amazon, Orinoco and São Francisco basins, as well as the river basin of the Guiana Shield.

See Urarina language and Myleus

Mylossoma

Mylossoma is a genus of serrasalmids from tropical and subtropical South America, including the basins of the Amazon, Orinoco, Lake Maracaibo and Paraguay-Paraná.

See Urarina language and Mylossoma

Myristicaceae

The Myristicaceae are a family of flowering plants native to Africa, Asia, Pacific islands, and the Americas and has been recognized by most taxonomists.

See Urarina language and Myristicaceae

Myrtaceae

Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales.

See Urarina language and Myrtaceae

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 Urarina language and Nasal consonant

New World oriole

New World orioles are a group of birds in the genus Icterus of the blackbird family.

See Urarina language and New World oriole

Night monkey

Night monkeys, also known as owl monkeys or douroucoulis, are nocturnal New World monkeys of the genus Aotus, the only member of the family Aotidae.

See Urarina language and Night monkey

Object–verb–subject word order

In linguistic typology, object–verb–subject (OVS) or object–verb–agent (OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. Urarina language and object–verb–subject word order are object–verb–subject languages.

See Urarina language and Object–verb–subject word order

Ochroma

Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree, is a large, fast-growing tree native to the Americas.

See Urarina language and Ochroma

Omurano language

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

See Urarina language and Omurano language

Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Urarina language and Open vowel

Oropendola

Oropendolas are a genus of passerine birds, Psarocolius, in the New World blackbird family Icteridae.

See Urarina language and Oropendola

Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

See Urarina language and Palatal consonant

Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

See Urarina language and Palatalization (phonetics)

Panoan languages

Panoan (also Pánoan, Panoano, Panoana, Páno) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia. Urarina language and Panoan languages are indigenous languages of Western Amazonia.

See Urarina language and Panoan languages

Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

See Urarina language and Peru

Petiveria

Petiveria is a genus of flowering plants in the pigeonberry family, Petiveriaceae.

See Urarina language and Petiveria

Physalis angulata

Physalis angulata is an erect herbaceous annual plant belonging to the nightshade family Solanaceae.

See Urarina language and Physalis angulata

Phytolaccaceae

Phytolaccaceae is a family of flowering plants.

See Urarina language and Phytolaccaceae

Pimelodidae

The Pimelodidae, commonly known as the long-whiskered catfishes, are a family of catfishes (order Siluriformes).

See Urarina language and Pimelodidae

Pinirampus

Pinirampus pirinampu is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) of the family Pimelodidae.

See Urarina language and Pinirampus

Pinnated bittern

The pinnated bittern (Botaurus pinnatus), also known as the South American bittern, is a large member of the heron family (Ardeidae) found in the New World tropics.

See Urarina language and Pinnated bittern

Piperaceae

The Piperaceae, also known as the pepper family, are a large family of flowering plants.

See Urarina language and Piperaceae

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 Urarina language and Plosive

Poaceae

Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.

See Urarina language and Poaceae

Polysynthetic language

In linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed of many morphemes (word parts that have independent meaning but may or may not be able to stand alone).

See Urarina language and Polysynthetic language

Poulsenia

Poulsenia is a monotypic genus of trees in the family Moraceae.

See Urarina language and Poulsenia

Pourouma cecropiifolia

Pourouma cecropiifolia (Amazon grape, Amazon tree-grape or uvilla; syn. P. multifida) is a species of Pourouma, native to tropical South America, in the western Amazon Basin in northern Bolivia, western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and southern Venezuela.

See Urarina language and Pourouma cecropiifolia

Pouteria caimito

Pouteria caimito, the abiu, is a tropical fruit tree originating in the Amazonian region of South America, and this type of fruit can also be found in the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia.

See Urarina language and Pouteria caimito

Prochilodontidae

The Prochilodontidae, or flannel-mouthed characins, are a small family of freshwater fishes found primarily in the northern half of South America, south to Paraguay and northern Argentina.

See Urarina language and Prochilodontidae

Prochilodus

Prochilodus is a genus of freshwater fish from the family Prochilodontidae.

See Urarina language and Prochilodus

Psidium guajava

Psidium guajava, the common guava, yellow guava, lemon guava, or apple guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Caribbean, Central America and South America.

See Urarina language and Psidium guajava

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 Urarina language and Quechuan languages

Razor-billed curassow

The razor-billed curassow (Mitu tuberosum) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows.

See Urarina language and Razor-billed curassow

Red-faced spider monkey

The red-faced spider monkey (Ateles paniscus), also known as the Guiana spider monkey or red-faced black spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey found in the rain forests in northern South America.

See Urarina language and Red-faced spider monkey

Retroflex consonant

A retroflex, apico-domal, or cacuminal consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.

See Urarina language and Retroflex consonant

Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family.

See Urarina language and Rubiaceae

Rufescent tiger heron

The rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) is a species of heron in the family Ardeidae.

See Urarina language and Rufescent tiger heron

Sapotaceae

''Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India The Sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order Ericales.

See Urarina language and Sapotaceae

Scleria

Scleria is a genus of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.

See Urarina language and Scleria

Silver dollar (fish)

Silver dollar is a common name given to a number of species of fishes, mostly in the genus Metynnis, tropical fish belonging to the family Serrasalmidae which are closely related to piranha and pacu.

See Urarina language and Silver dollar (fish)

Socratea exorrhiza

Socratea exorrhiza, the walking palm or cashapona, is a palm native to rainforests in tropical Central and South America.

See Urarina language and Socratea exorrhiza

Solanaceae

The Solanaceae, or the nightshades, are a family of flowering plants that ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and ornamentals.

See Urarina language and Solanaceae

Solanum mammosum

Solanum mammosum, commonly known as nipplefruit, fox head, cow's udder, or apple of Sodom, is an inedible Pan-American tropical fruit.

See Urarina language and Solanum mammosum

Solanum sessiliflorum

Solanum sessiliflorum, the cocona, is a tropical shrub of the family Solanaceae.

See Urarina language and Solanum sessiliflorum

Southern naked-tailed armadillo

The southern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous unicinctus) is a species of small armadillo from South America.

See Urarina language and Southern naked-tailed armadillo

Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

See Urarina language and Spanish language

Spider monkey

Spider monkeys are New World monkeys belonging to the genus Ateles, part of the subfamily Atelinae, family Atelidae.

See Urarina language and Spider monkey

Spondias mombin

Spondias mombin, also known as yellow mombin, hog plum, amra or cajazeira, is a species of tree and flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae.

See Urarina language and Spondias mombin

Tamarin

The tamarins are squirrel-sized New World monkeys from the family Callitrichidae in the genus Saguinus.

See Urarina language and Tamarin

Tambaqui

The tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) is a large species of freshwater fish in the family Serrasalmidae.

See Urarina language and Tambaqui

Tetra

Tetra is the common name of many small freshwater characiform fishes.

See Urarina language and Tetra

Tilapia

Tilapia is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the coelotilapine, coptodonine, heterotilapine, oreochromine, pelmatolapiine, and tilapiine tribes (formerly all were "Tilapiini"), with the economically most important species placed in the Coptodonini and Oreochromini.

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Tinamou

Tinamous are members of the order Tinamiformes, and family Tinamidae, divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

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Tufted capuchin

The tufted capuchin (Sapajus apella), also known as brown capuchin, black-capped capuchin, or pin monkey, is a New World primate from South America and the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Margarita.

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Tupian languages

The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani. Urarina language and Tupian languages are indigenous languages of Western Amazonia.

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Tympanopleura atronasus

Tympanopleura atronasus is a species of catfish of the family Auchenipteridae.

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Uncaria

Uncaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.

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Undulated tinamou

The undulated tinamou (Crypturellus undulatus) is a species of ground bird found in a wide range of wooded habitats in eastern and northern South America.

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Urarina

The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin (Loreto) who inhabit the valleys of the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers.

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Urarinas District

Urarinas District is one of five districts of the province Loreto in Peru.

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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").

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Verschaffeltia

Verschaffeltia splendida ("Latanier Latte" or stilt palm) is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

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Voice (phonetics)

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

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Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

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White-lipped peccary

The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is a species of peccary found in Central and South America and the only member of the genus Tayassu.

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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.

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References

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

Also known as ISO 639:ura, Itucale language, Shimaku language.

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