Hixkaryána

Language code

hix

Location

1°00'00"S 59°00'00"W

Family

Carib

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plain stop/affricate	p	t	tʃ		k
Voiced stop	b	d		dʲ
Fricative	ɸ	s	ʃ			h
Nasal	m	n		ɲ
Approximant				j	w
Tap, flap		ɾ
Lateral		ɺ

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High		ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

Suprasegmental

None

Bibliography

Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1985. Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics 76. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. 177-182.

Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1999. Carib. The Amazonian Languages. Ed. R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 23-61.

Notes

According to Derbyshire (1985:177), phonemic status of /b, d, dʲ/ is marginal.