Araweté language

Araweté is a Tupi–Guaraní language of the state of Amazonas, in the Amazon region of Brazil. Nearly all speakers were monolingual in 1986.

Araweté
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonas
Native speakers	280 (2006)[1]
Language family	Tupian Tupi–Guarani Xingu Araweté
Language codes
ISO 639-3	awt
Glottolog	araw1273
ELP	Araweté

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃
Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Open		a ã

Phoneme	Allophones
/e/	[e], [ɛ]
/o/	[o], [ɔ], [ɤ], [ʊ], [ɯ], [u]
/ã/	[ã], [ə̃]
/õ/	[õ], [ũ]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
	voiced		d
Continuant		w	ɾ	j		h

Phoneme	Allophones
/t/	[t], [ts], [tʲ]
/d/	[d], [dᶻ], [dʲ], [ð]
/tʃ/	[tʃ], [tʃʲ]
/m/	[m], [b]
/w/	[w], [β]
/j/	[j], [j̃], [ɲ], [ɲʲ], [dʒ]

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References

1. Araweté at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Alves, Juliana Ferreira (2008). Fonética e fonologia da língua Araweté : uma nova contribuiçao. Brasília: Univ. de Brasília.

External links

• Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Araweté". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.