Waiwai

Código de língua

waw

Localização

0°41'53"S 57°58'26"W

Família

Carib

Consoantes	Bilabial	Alveolar	Pós- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glotal
Oclusiva/africada		t	tʃ		k
Fricativa	ɸ	s	ʃ			h
Nasal	m	n		ɲ
Aproximante				j	w
Vibrante simple		ɾ
Lateral		ɺ

Vogais	Anterior	Central	Posterior
Fechada/alta	i	ɨ	u
Média	e		o
Aberta/baixa		a

Suprasegmental

Nenhum

Bibliografia

Hawkins, Robert. 1998. Wai Wai. In Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum (eds.), Handbook of Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Vol. 4, pp. 25-224. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Derbyshire, Desmond. 1999. Carib. In R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds.), The Amazonian Languages, pp. 23-61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Notas

The segment given in the inventory as /ɺ/ is described by Hawkins (1998: 25) as an “/r/...formed with the blade of the tongue..an alveopalatal with popped lateral release”, and by Derbyshire (1999: 27) as “palatal ɹ with lateral release”.