Paumarí
Language code
pad
Location
6°00'00"S 64°00'00"W
Family
Arawan
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal |
| Aspirated stop | tʰ | kʰ | ||||
| Plain/voiced stop/affricate | p b | t d | tʃ dʒ | k ɡ | ʔ | |
| Implosive stop | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ β | s | ʃ | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ | ɽ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i iː | ||
| Mid | o oː | ||
| Low | a aː |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Chapman, Shirley and Desmond C. Derbyshire. 1991. Paumarí. Handbook of Amazonian Languages 3. Ed. Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 346-349
Dixon, R.M.W. 2004. Proto-Arawá Phonology. Anthropological Linguistics 46.1. 1-83.
Notes
Labiodental fricative /v/ and labial fricative /β/ are in free variation (Chapman 347 & Dixon 10).
Dixon ignores Chapman's contrast between “[ř], a flap vibrant, and [ṛ̂], a retroflexed grooved reverse flap vibrant” (Chapman 347) on the grounds that the two vibrants “are not distinguished in the materials on P[aumari] by Chapman and Derbyshire (2004) and by Chapman and Salzer (2008), both vibrants being written as r” (Dixon 13).