Ticuna of San Martín de Amacayacu

Language code
tca_ama
Location
3°47'13"S 70°17'49"W
Family
Isolate
ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarPost-
alveolar
PalatalVelar
Plain stop/affricateptk
Voiced stopbdɟɡ
Approximantw
Tap, flapɾ
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Highi ĩɯ ɯ̃ u ũ
Mide ẽo õ
Lowa ã
Suprasegmental
Tone
Bibliography

Montes Rodríguez, María Emilia. 1995. Tonología de la lengua Ticuna (Amacayacu). Colciencias: Univ. de los Andes.

Montes Rodríguez, María Emilia. 2005. Fonología y dialectología del tikuna. Amerindia 29-30. 98-107.

Notes

Montes Rodríguez (1995) noes that /ɸ/ appears in some other dialects of Ticuna and that /h/ appears in an onomatopoeic word.