Mehináku | |
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Native to | Brazil |
Region | Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso |
Ethnicity | Mehinako |
Native speakers | 230 (2006)[1] |
Arawakan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mmh |
qdv Waura–Mehináku | |
Glottolog | mehi1240 |
ELP | Mehináku |
Mehináku (Meinaku) is an Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil.[2] One dialect, Waurá-kumá, is "somewhat intelligible" with Waurá due to influence from this language.[1]
Mehináku features five vowels /a e i ɨ u/ which can be either oral or nasal /ã ẽ ĩ ɨ̃ ũ/.[3]
The language has thirteen consonants.[3]
Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p | t | k | ||||
Affricate | ts | tʃ | |||||
Fricative | ʂ | h | |||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Lateral | l | ||||||
Tap | ɾ | ||||||
Approximant | w | j |
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