Karitiâna language

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Karitiâna
Spoken in:	Brazil
Total speakers:	~200 (2000)
Language family:	Tupi Arikem Karitiâna
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`tup`
ISO 639-3:	`ktn`
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Karitiâna or Caritiana is a Tupi language of Brazil.

1 Phonology
- 1.1 Vowels
- 1.2 Consonants
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

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

[edit] Consonants

	Bilabial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p	t		k	ʔ
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative		s			h
Rhotic		r
Approximant			j	w

The nasals /m n ɲ/ are pre-stopped [bm dn ɟɲ] if they are preceded by an oral vowel, and post-stopped [mb nd ɲɟ] if they are followed by one. The velar nasal /ŋ/ is denasalized [ɡ] before oral vowels in unstressed syllables, post-stopped [ŋɡ] before oral vowels in stressed syllables, and pre-stopped [ɡŋ] after oral vowels.

/h r j w/ are nasalized [h̃ r̃ w̃ j̃] when surrounded by nasal vowels.

[edit] References

(Portuguese) Landin, David J. (1988). "As orações karitiâna" (PDF). Série Lingüística 9 (2): 30–50.
(Portuguese) Landin, David J. [1983] (2005). Dicionário e léxico karitiâna/português (PDF), Brasília: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
(Portuguese) Landin, Rachel M. (1987). "Conjunções karitiâna de nivel superior" (PDF). Série Lingüística 9 (1): 199–206.