Urarina

Language code

ura

Location

4°00'00"S 75°00'00"W

Family

Isolate

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Labio- velar	Glottal
Plain stop/affricate		t			tɕ	k	kʷ
Voiced stop	b	d
Fricative		s	ʃ		hʲ		fʷ	h
Nasal	m	n			ɲ
Tap, flap				ɽ
Lateral		l

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ iː ĩː	ɨ ɨ̃ ɨː ɨ̃ː	u ũ uː ũː
Mid	e ẽ eː ẽː
Low		a ã aː ãː

Suprasegmental

Tone

Bibliography

Olawsky, Knut. 2006. A Grammar of Urarina. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 30-54.

Notes

The /ʉ/ of Olawsky is represented as /ɨ/ here based on the description of it as a "high central, (slightly) rounded vowel" (2006: 52) and the observation that it can be also be realized as [ə] or [ɨ].