Jarawara language

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Jarawara
Spoken in:	Amazonas, Brazil
Total speakers:	155
Language family:	Arauan Jarawara
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`sai`
ISO 639-3:	`jap`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

location of Amazonas, Brazil

Jarawara (also Jaruara, Jaruára, Yarawara) is a dialect of Madi, an Arauan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil. Jarawara is spoken by approximately 155 people.

1 Phonology
- 1.1 Vowels
- 1.2 Consonants
2 Bibliography
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i iː
Mid	e eː	o oː
Low	a aː

[edit] Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	b	t		ɟ	k	(ʔ)
Nasal	m	n
Fricative	ɸ		s			h̃
Liquid			r
Semivowel					w

The glottal stop [ʔ] has a limited distribution.

The liquid /r/ may be realized as a trill [r], flap [ɾ], or lateral [l]. The palatal stop /ɟ/ may be realized as a semivowel [j].

The glottal fricative /h̃/ is nasalized. See rhinoglottophilia.

[edit] Bibliography

Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
Dixon, R. M. W. (1995). "Fusional development of gender marking in Jarawara possessed nouns". International Journal of American Linguistics 61: 263–294. doi:10.1086/466256.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2000). "A-constructions and O-constructions in Jarawara". International Journal of American Linguistics 66: 22–56. doi:10.1086/466405.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2003). "The eclectic morphology of Jarawara, and the status of word", in R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Alkhenvald: Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2004). The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927067-8.
Dixon, R. M. W.; Vogel, A. R. (1996). "Reduplication in Jarawara". Languages of the World 10: 24–31.
Gordon, Ryamond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
Kaufman, Terrence (1994). "The native languages of South America", in C. Mosley & R. E. Asher: Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge, 46–76.