Paresí
Other names
Parecís
Language code
pab
Location
14°00'00"S 57°00'00"W
Family
Arawak
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Stop | b | t | tʲ | k | ||||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | θ | ʃ | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ | |||||||
| Lateral | l | lʲ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i ĩː | ||
| Mid | e ẽː | o | |
| Low | a |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Silva, Glauber Romling da. 2013. Morfossintaxe da língua Paresi-Haliti (Arawak). PhD dissertation, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Brandão, Ana Paula Barros. 2014. A Reference Grammar Of Paresi-Haliti (Arawak). PhD dissertation: The University of Texas at Austin.
Rowan, Orlando. 2001. Iraiti Xawaiyekehalakatyakala (Dicionário Paresí – Português). Cuiabá: International Society of Linguistics.
Notes
da Silva remarks that /kʷ/ occurs only in the classifier that denotes 'surface'.