Matsés

Código de língua

mcf

Localização

5°39'32"S 73°02'06"W

Família

Panoan

Consoantes	Bilabial	Alveolar	Pós- alveolar	Retroflexa	Palatal	Velar
Oclusiva surda	p	t				k
Oclusiva sonora	b	d
Africada		ts	tʃ	ʈʂ
Fricativa		s	ʃ	ʂ
Nasal	m	n
Aproximante					j	w

Vogais	Anterior	Central	Posterior
Fechada/alta	i	ɨ	ɯ
Média	e		ɤ
Aberta/baixa		a

Suprasegmental

Nenhum

Bibliografia

Fleck, David William. 2003. A grammar of Matses. PhD dissertation, Rice University.

Notas

Fleck transcribes Matsés' two back vowels as /u/ and /o/, but he describes them as “unrounded, and therefore more accurately transcribed using the IPA [ɯ] and [ɤ]” (72). Therefore, we have chosen to represent them as /ɯ/ and /ɤ/.