Lokono
Other names
Arawak
Language code
arw
Location
6°04'59"N 57°35'56"W; 5°09'58"N 57°28'23"W; 5°31'34"N 55°09'04"W
Family
Arawak
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Aspirated stop | tʰ | kʰ | |||||
| Plain stop/affricate | p | t | tʃ | k | |||
| Voiced stop | b | d | |||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ | ɽ | |||||
| Lateral | l |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i iː | ɨ ɨː | |
| Mid | e | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Pet, Willem J. A. 1988. Lokono dian: the Arawak language of Surinam: a sketch of its grammatical structure and lexicon. PhD dissertation, Cornell University.
Pet, Willem J. A. 2011. A Grammar Sketch and Lexicon of Arawak (Lokono Dian). Dallas: SIL International.
Patte, Marie-France. 2009. Parlons Arawak: Une langue amérindienne d'Amazonie. Paris: Harmattan.
Patte, Marie-France. 2011. La langue arawak de Guyane: Présentation historique et dictionnaires arawak-français et français-arawak. Marseille: Institut de recherche pour le développement.
Notes
Pet (1988) observes that /p/ occurs only in loans, and that phonetic realization of /o/ varies between [o] and [u].