Mawayana

Código de lengua

mzx

Localización

2°21'32"N 56°47'38"W

Familia

Arawak

Consonantes	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Retrofleja	Palatal	Velar	Glotal
Oclusiva/africada		t	tʃ			k	ʔ
Oclusiva implosiva	ɓ	ɗ			ʄ
Fricativa	ɸ	s	ʃ	ʂ	ç
Nasal	m	n				ŋ
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

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.