Kwaza
Language code
xwa
Location
12°21'00"S 60°24'00"W
Family
Isolate
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Stop | p | t t̺ | k | ʔ | ||
| Implosive stop | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||
| Fricative | s s̺ | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Mid-high | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Mid-low | ɛ ɛ̃ œ œ̃ | ||
| Low | a ã |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Van der Voort, Hein. 2000. Kwaza or Koaiá, an Unclassified Language of Rondônia, Brazil. Indigenous Languages of Latin America 1. Leiden University, the Netherlands: CNWS Publications. 39-52.
Van der Voort, Hein. 2004. A Grammar of Kwaza. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 45-68.
Notes
Van der Voort (2004: 52) states that [b] and [d] are possible variants of the implosives /ɓ/ and /ɗ/.
The "apico-(post-)alveolar fricative" (/x/) of van der Voort (2004: 54) and the "voiceless post-alveolar apical plosive" (/c/) (56), are represented here as /s̺/ and /t̺/ respectively.