Araweté is a Tupi–Guaraní language of the state of Amazonas, in the Amazon region of Brazil. Nearly all speakers were monolingual in 1986.
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| Araweté | |
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| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Amazonas |
Native speakers | 280 (2006)[1] |
Language family | Tupian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | awt |
| Glottolog | araw1273 |
| ELP | Araweté |
| Front | Central | Back | ||
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| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | ||
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | ||
| Open | a ã | |||
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
| /e/ | [e], [ɛ] |
| /o/ | [o], [ɔ], [ɤ], [ʊ], [ɯ], [u] |
| /ã/ | [ã], [ə̃] |
| /õ/ | [õ], [ũ] |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Stop | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | d | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
| Fricative | h | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
| /t/ | [t], [ts], [tʲ] |
| /d/ | [d], [dᶻ], [dʲ], [ð] |
| /tʃ/ | [tʃ], [tʃʲ] |
| /m/ | [m], [b] |
| /w/ | [w], [β] |
| /j/ | [j], [j̃], [ɲ], [ɲʲ], [dʒ] |
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| Mondé |
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| Yuruna | |||||||||||||||||||
| Munduruku | |||||||||||||||||||
| Maweti–Guarani |
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