Ticuna of San Martín de Amacayacu
Language code
tca_ama
Location
3°47'13"S 70°17'49"W
Family
Isolate
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar |
Plain stop/affricate | p | t | tʃ | k | |
Voiced stop | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | |
Approximant | w | ||||
Tap, flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
High | i ĩ | ɯ ɯ̃ u ũ | |
Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
Low | a 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.