Bakairí (Western dialect)
Language code
bkq_wst
Location
14°43'48"S 56°14'53"W
Family
Carib
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
Plain stop | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
Voiced stop | b | d | ɡ | |||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||
Tap, flap | ɾ | |||||
Lateral | l |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
High | i ĩ | u ũ | |
Mid | e ẽ | ə ə̃ | o õ |
Low | a ã |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Meira, Sérgio. 2005. Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi Segmental Phonology. Anthropological Linguistics 47.3. 261-291.
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