Kaingang

Language code

kgp

Location

26°00'00"S 52°00'00"W

Family

Macro-Ge

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p	t			k	ʔ
Fricative	ɸ		ʃ			h
Nasal	m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Tap, flap		ɾ

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ	ɨ	u
Mid-high	e		o õ
Mid		ə ə̃
Mid-low	ɛ		ɔ
Low	æ̃	a ã

Suprasegmental

None

Bibliography

Neto, Ambrósio Pereira da Silva. 2007. Revisão da Classificação da Família Lingüística Purí. MA thesis, Universidade de Brasília.

Wetzels, W. Leo. 2010. Word prosody and the distribution of oral/nasal contour consonants in Kaingang. In Carlin, Eithne B. and van de Kerke, Simon (eds.), Linguistics and Archeology in the Americas: The Historization of Language and Society, 235-252. Leiden: Brill.