Matsés
Language code
mcf
Location
5°39'32"S 73°02'06"W
Family
Panoan
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar |
Plain stop | p | t | k | |||
Voiced stop | b | d | ||||
Affricate | ts | tʃ | ʈʂ | |||
Fricative | s | ʃ | ʂ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Approximant | j | w |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
High | i | ɨ | ɯ |
Mid | e | ɤ | |
Low | a |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Fleck, David William. 2003. A grammar of Matses. PhD dissertation, Rice University.
Notes
Fleck transcribes Matsés' two back vowels as /u/ and /o/, but he describes them as “unrounded, and therefore more accurately transcribed using the IPA [ɯ] and [ɤ]” (72). Therefore, we have chosen to represent them as /ɯ/ and /ɤ/.