Paumarí

Language code
pad
Location
6°00'00"S 64°00'00"W
Family
Arawan
ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarPost-
alveolar
RetroflexVelarGlottal
Aspirated stop
Plain/voiced stop/affricatep bt dtʃ dʒk ɡʔ
Implosive stopɓɗ
Fricativeɸ βsʃh
Nasalmn
Tap, flapɾɽ
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Highi iː
Mido oː
Lowa 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).