Kaiwá
Language code
kgk
Location
23°00'00"S 55°00'00"W
Family
Tupí
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | Glottal |
| Stop/affricate | p | t | dʒ | k | ʔ | ||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Low | a ã |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Cardoso, V. F. 2008. Aspectos Morfossintáticos da Língua Kaiowá (Guaraní). PhD dissertation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Bridgeman, Loraine I. 1961. Kaiwa (Guarani) phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics, 27(4): 329-334.
Notes
Bridgeman states that [dʒ] and [ɟ] are in free variation.
/b/ and /d/ have allophones [m] and [n]
/v/ has allophone [w]
“The phoneme of nasalization occurs with the grammatical word.”