Itene language

Not to be confused with Moré language or Mure language.

Itene
Moré
Native to	Bolivia
Region	Beni Department
Native speakers	45 (2012–2020)
Language family	Chapacuran Moré languages Itene
Dialects	Itoreauhip
Official status
Official language in	Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ite
Glottolog	iten1243
ELP	Itene

Itene (Moré) is a Chapacuran language of Bolivia. Itoreauhip is a dialect.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
		plain	lab.	plain	pal.
Nasal	voiced	m	mʷ	n			ɲ
	preglottal	ˀ͡ᵐ̥m	ˀ͡ᵐ̥ʷ̥mʷ	ˀ͡ⁿ̥n			ˀ͡ᶮ̥ɲ
	glottalized	mˀ͡ᵐ̥		nˀ͡ⁿ̥			ɲˀ͡ᶮ̥
Plosive	voiceless	p	pʷ̥	t	tʲ̥	t̠̻	(c)	k	ʔ
	preglottal	ˀ͡ᵖp	ˀ͡ᵖʷ̥pʷ̥	ˀ͡ᵗt	ˀ͡ᵗʲtʲ̥			ˀ͡ᵏk
Affricate			t͡ʙ̥
Fricative		β		s		ʒ̟			h
Approximant	voiced	w					j
	preglottal	ˀ͡ʷ̥w					ˀ͡ʲ̥j
	glottalized	wˀ͡ʷ̥					jˀ͡ʲ̥

• All plosive sounds are heard as unreleased [C̚] when in word-final position.
• /p/ is heard as [ɸ] in initial position before /u/.
• /t/ can be heard as a tap [ɾ] when in intervocalic positions.
• /k/ is heard as palatal [c] when following /i/, and as [cᶜ̧] when preceding /i/ in initial position.
• /k/ and /ˀ͡ᵏk/ are heard as [kˣ] and [ˀ͡ᵏkˣ] when in initial position in free variation.
• /tʲ̥/ and /ˀ͡ᵗʲtʲ̥/ are heard as post-fricativized [t̠ᶴ] and [ˀ͡ᵗt̠ᶴ] when in initial positions.
• /ʒ̟/ is heard as a lateral [ɮ] in word-final position.
• /w/ is heard as [β] when after /ɛ/.

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	ɛ	ɔ
Low	a

Phoneme/Phone	Allophones	Rules
/i/ [i]	[ɪ̆]	/__$ˈ
	[ʉ̞̆]	_Cʷ_
	[ʉ]	ˈ_Cʷ_
	[iː]	/ˈC__$
	[i]	elsewhere
/ɛ/ [ɛ]	[ə̆]	/__$ˈ
	[ə]	/__C$
	[əː]	/ˈC__$
	[ɵ]	_Cʷ_
	[ɛ̆]	/__$ˈC
	[ɛː]	/ˈʔ__$
	[ɛ]	elsewhere
/a/ [a]	[ɐ̆]	/__$ˈ
	[aː]	/ˈC__$
	[a]	elsewhere
/ɔ/ [ɔ]	[ɔ̆]	/__$ˈ
	[ɔː]	/ˈC__$
	[ɔ]	elsewhere
/u/ [u]	[ʊ̆]	/__$ˈ
	[uː]	/ˈC__$
	[u]	elsewhere

See also

• Wariʼ language, the only vibrant language in the same language family, spoken in Rondônia, Brazil