Piratapuyo

Other names

Wa'ikhana

Language code

pir

Location

0°12'00"N 69°18'00"W

Family

Tucanoan

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plain stop	p	t		k
Voiced stop	b	d		ɡ
Fricative		s			h
Approximant			j	w

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Low		a ã

Suprasegmental

Tone, laryngeal harmony

Bibliography

Stenzel, Kristine and Didier Demolin. 2012. Traços laringais em Kotiria e Wa'ikhana (Tukano Oriental). In Gisela Collischonn e Leda Bisol (eds.), Fonologia: Teorias e Perspectivas-Anais do IV Seminaria Internacional de Fonologia. Porto Alegre: PURS. 77-100.

Klumpp, James W. and Deloris A. Klumpp. 1973. Sistema fonológico del piratapuyo. In Viola Waterhouse (ed.), Sistemas fonológicos de idiomas Colombianos 2, 107-20. Bogotá: Ministerio de Gobierno.