Mawayana

Language code

mzx

Location

2°21'32"N 56°47'38"W

Family

Arawak

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop/affricate		t	tʃ			k	ʔ
Implosive stop	ɓ	ɗ			ʄ
Fricative	ɸ	s	ʃ	ʂ	ç
Nasal	m	n				ŋ
Approximant					j	w
Tap, flap		ɾ

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Low		a ã

Suprasegmental

None

Bibliography

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.