Pemon (Arekuna dialect)

Language code

aoc_are

Location

5°06'00"N 62°00'00"W

Family

Carib

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p	t		k	ʔ
Fricative		s
Nasal	m	n
Approximant			j	w
Tap, flap		ɾ

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i		ɯ u
Mid	e		ɤ o
Low		a

Suprasegmental

None

Bibliography

Tuggy, Edward. 1989. Pemong verb morphology (Arekuna dialect). Presented at two special colloqiua, University of Oregon.

Edwards, Walter F. 1978. A preliminary sketch of Arekuna (Carib) phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics 44.3. 223-227.

Pessoa, Katia Nepomuceno. 2006. Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (Família Caribe). PhD dissertation, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

Notes

Edwards omits glottal stop /ʔ/, arguing that [ʔ] is an allophone of /k/ (225). He also includes mid-high back unrounded vowel /ɤ/ rather than high central rounded vowel /ʉ/ (224).