Waiwai_language

Waiwai language

Waiwai language

Cariban language spoken in Brazil and Guyana

Waiwai /ˈwaɪwaɪ/[2] (Uaiuai, Uaieue, Ouayeone) is a Cariban language of northern Brazil, with a couple hundred speakers across the border in southern Guyana and Suriname.

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Phonology

Consonants

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Vowels

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  • /o/ can be heard as [ʌ] when following palatal consonants /tʃ, ʃ/.
  • /a/ can be heard as [æ] when preceded by sounds /j, tʃ/, and followed by sounds /w, m, s/.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Waiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
  3. [3]
    Hawkins, Robert (1998). Wai Wai. Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum (eds.), Handbook of Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Vol. 4: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 25–224.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)


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