Chipaya
Language code
cap
Location
18°17'46"S 68°09'04"W
Family
Uru-Chipaya
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular |
| Aspirated stop/affricate | pʰ | tʰ tsʰ | tʃʰ | ʈʂʰ | kʰ | qʰ | |
| Creaky stop/affricate | pʼ | tʼ tsʼ | tʃʼ | ʈʂʼ | kʼ | qʼ | |
| Plain stop/affricate | p | t ts | tʃ | ʈʂ | k | q | |
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ʂ | x | χ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Lateral | ɬ l | ʎ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Olson, Ronald. 1967. The syllable in Chipaya. International Journal of American Linguistics, 33(4): 300-304.
Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo. 2006. El chipaya o la lengua de los hombres del agua. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Hannß, Katja. to appear. Uru and Chipaya. In Matthias Urban (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes. Oxford University Press.
Notes
Cerrón-Palomino (2006: 55-56) also notes the marginal presence of /ʔ/ in one morpheme.