Jurúna

Language code

jur

Location

5°00'00"S 54°18'00"W

Family

Tupí

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop/affricate	p b	t d	tʃ dʒ		k	ʔ
Fricative		s z	ʃ			h
Nasal	m	n
Approximant				j	w
Tap, flap		ɾ
Lateral		ɮ

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ iː	ɨ ɨ̃ ɨː	u ũ uː
Mid	e ẽ eː
Low		a ã aː

Suprasegmental

Tone

Bibliography

Fargetti, Cristina Martins. 1992. Análise fonológica da língua juruna. MA thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

Fargetti, Cristina Martins. 2007. Estudo fonológico e morfossintático da língua juruna. München: LINCOM Europe.

Notes

Fargetti (2007: 74) offers one minimal pair showing a length contrast for the nasal vowel /ɨ̃/. However, she does not claim that a phonemic length contrast exists for all nasal vowels.