Mawayana
Language code
mzx
Location
2°21'32"N 56°47'38"W
Family
Arawak
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
Stop/affricate | t | tʃ | k | ʔ | |||
Implosive stop | ɓ | ɗ | ʄ | ||||
Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ | ʂ | ç | ||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
Approximant | j | w | |||||
Tap, flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
Low | a ã |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Carlin, Eithne B. 2006. Feeling the Need: The Borrowing of Cariban Functional Categories into Mawayana. From Aikhenvald and Dixon (eds.), Grammars in Contact.
Coretta, Stefano. 2013. The phonology of Mawayana (Arawakan). Pavia: Università degli Studi di Pavia MA thesis.
Howard, Catherine V. 2001. Wrought Identities: The Waiwai Expiditions In Search Of The 'Unseen Tribes' of Northern Amazonia. PhD dissertation, University of Chicago.
Michels, Marc. 2014. Verbal Morphology in Mawayana. Universiteit Leiden.