Lokono

Outros nomes

Arawak

Código de língua

arw

Localização

6°04'59"N 57°35'56"W; 5°09'58"N 57°28'23"W; 5°31'34"N 55°09'04"W

Família

Arawak

Consoantes	Bilabial	Alveolar	Pós- alveolar	Retroflexa	Palatal	Velar	Glotal
Oclusiva aspirada		tʰ				kʰ
Oclusiva/africada surda	p	t	tʃ			k
Oclusiva sonora	b	d
Fricativa	ɸ	s	ʃ				h
Nasal	m	n
Aproximante					j	w
Vibrante multiple		r
Vibrante simple		ɾ		ɽ
Lateral		l

Vogais	Anterior	Central	Posterior
Fechada/alta	i iː	ɨ ɨː
Média	e		o oː
Aberta/baixa		a aː

Suprasegmental

Nenhum

Bibliografia

Pet, Willem J. A. 1988. Lokono dian: the Arawak language of Surinam: a sketch of its grammatical structure and lexicon. PhD dissertation, Cornell University.

Pet, Willem J. A. 2011. A Grammar Sketch and Lexicon of Arawak (Lokono Dian). Dallas: SIL International.

Patte, Marie-France. 2009. Parlons Arawak: Une langue amérindienne d'Amazonie. Paris: Harmattan.

Patte, Marie-France. 2011. La langue arawak de Guyane: Présentation historique et dictionnaires arawak-français et français-arawak. Marseille: Institut de recherche pour le développement.

Notas

Pet (1988) observes that /p/ occurs only in loans, and that phonetic realization of /o/ varies between [o] and [u].