Kaiwá
Código de lengua
kgk
Localización
23°00'00"S 55°00'00"W
Familia
Tupí
| Consonantes | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | Glotal |
| Oclusiva/africada | p | t | dʒ | k | ʔ | ||
| Fricativa | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||||
| Aproximante | j | w | |||||
| Vibrante simple | ɾ |
| Vocales | Anterior | Central | Posterior |
| Cerrada | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Intermedia | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Abierta | a ã |
Suprasegmental
Ninguno
Bibliografía
Cardoso, V. F. 2008. Aspectos Morfossintáticos da Língua Kaiowá (Guaraní). PhD dissertation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Bridgeman, Loraine I. 1961. Kaiwa (Guarani) phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics, 27(4): 329-334.
Notas
Bridgeman states that [dʒ] and [ɟ] are in free variation.
/b/ and /d/ have allophones [m] and [n]
/v/ has allophone [w]
“The phoneme of nasalization occurs with the grammatical word.”