The Xerénte or Akwẽ-Xerénte language is an Akuwẽ (Central Jê) language (Jê, Macro-Jê) of Brazil. It is spoken by the Xerente people in the Tocantins state between Rio do Sono and Rio Tocantins.

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Xerénte
Native to	Brazil
Region	Tocantins
Ethnicity	Xerente people
Native speakers	1,810 (2000)[1]
Language family	Macro-Jê Jê Cerrado Akuwẽ (Central Jê) Xerénte
Official status
Official language in	Brazil (Tocantínia)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xer
Glottolog	xere1240
ELP	Xerente

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• Vowels /i, ɨ, u, a/ when occurring in unstressed syllables can be heard as [ɪ, ɨ̞, ʊ, ɐ].

• A [ɡ] sound is heard as an allophone of /k/ when preceding another consonant.
• /d/ can be heard as dental [d̪] when preceding /i/.
• /s/ can be heard as a post-alveolar or retroflex sibilant sound [ʃ~ʂ] when preceding /i/.
• /h/ when preceding /i/ can be heard as a voiced velar or glottal fricative sound [ɣ~ɦ].
• /h/ when preceding /k/ can be heard as a velar fricative sound [x].
• /n/ when preceding the following vowels /i, õ, ɔ/ can be heard as a palatal nasal [ɲ].
• /ɾ/ may also be heard as a retroflex flap [ɽ].^[2]