Waiwai
Código de lengua
waw
Localización
0°41'53"S 57°58'26"W
Familia
Carib
Consonantes | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glotal |
Oclusiva/africada | t | tʃ | k | |||
Fricativa | ɸ | s | ʃ | h | ||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Aproximante | j | w | ||||
Vibrante simple | ɾ | |||||
Lateral | ɺ |
Vocales | Anterior | Central | Posterior |
Cerrada | i | ɨ | u |
Intermedia | e | o | |
Abierta | a |
Suprasegmental
Ninguno
Bibliografía
Hawkins, Robert. 1998. Wai Wai. In Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum (eds.), Handbook of Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Vol. 4, pp. 25-224. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Derbyshire, Desmond. 1999. Carib. In R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds.), The Amazonian Languages, pp. 23-61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Notas
The segment given in the inventory as /ɺ/ is described by Hawkins (1998: 25) as an “/r/...formed with the blade of the tongue..an alveopalatal with popped lateral release”, and by Derbyshire (1999: 27) as “palatal ɹ with lateral release”.