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.
Consonants
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]
- Waiwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
- Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Waiwai". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
- Waiwai Collection of Niels Fock from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, containing audio recordings of ceremonial chants and photographs made in the 1950s.
- Wai Wai (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
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