Apalaí language
Apalaí is a Cariban language spoken in Brazil. Approximately 450 Aparai people speak Apalaí. It is an agglutinative language which uses a rare object–verb–subjectword order.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | ||||
| voiced | z | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Tap/Flap | ɾ | ||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | nasal | plain | nasal | plain | nasal | |
| High | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | u | ũ |
| Mid | e | ẽ | o | õ | ||
| Low | a | ã | ||||
References
- ↑Apalaí at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑"Apalai Indian Language (Aparai)". Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- 12Koehn, Edward and Sally Koehn. 1971. Fonologia da Língua Apalai. Estudos Sôbre Línguas E Culturas Indígenas. Brasília: Instituto Lingüístico de Verão. 17-28.
Categories:
- Cariban languages
- Languages of Brazil
- Agglutinative languages
- Object–verb–subject languages
- Aparai people
- Endangered Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Endangered languages of South America
- Vulnerable languages
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs