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Waurá (Wauja) is an Arawakan language spoken in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil by the Waujá people.[2] It is "partially intelligible" with Mehináku. The entire population speaks the language.[1]

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Waurá
Native to	Brazil
Region	Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso
Ethnicity	Wauja
Native speakers	320 (2006)[1]
Language family	Arawakan Southern ? Paresí–Xingu Waurá Waura–Mehináku Waurá
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wau
Linguist List	qdv Waura–Mehináku
Glottolog	waur1244
ELP	Waurá

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p	t			k	ɢ	(ʔ)
Affricate		ts		tʃ
Nasal	m	n
Fricative		s	ʐ				h
Tap		ɾ
Approximant	w	l		j

• A glottal stop [ʔ] occurs phonetically before vowels in word-initial position, or after vowels in word-final position.
• /p/ can be heard as aspirated [pʰ] or voiced [b] in free variation.
• Stop sounds /t, k/ can be heard as aspirated [tʰ, kʰ] in free variation.
• /w/ can also be heard as [β] in free variation, except when before /u/.
• /s/ can be heard as voiced [z] when between vowels, or after initial vowels.
• /ʐ/ can be heard as voiceless [ʂ] when between vowels, or after initial vowels.
• /j/ can be heard as a palatal nasal [ɲ] when occurring before nasal vowels /ã, ẽ, ũ/.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː ĩ	ɨ ɨː ɨ̃	u uː ũ
Mid	e eː ẽ
Low		a aː ã

• Sounds /i, u, ɨ, a/ can also be heard in lax form as [ɪ, ʊ, ə, ɐ].
• Sounds /e, eː, ẽ/ can be heard as close-mid [e, eː, ẽ] or open-mid [ɛ, ɛː, ɛ̃] in free variation.[3]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Waurá language

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[ru] Ваура

Ваура (aura, uaura, wauja, waurá) — язык этнической общности амазонских индейцев ваура, один из языков аравакской семьи. Область распространения — территория национального парка Шингу, расположенного в штате Мату-Гросу в Бразилии. Язык ваура отчасти взаимопонятен с языком мехинаку. Письменность основана на латинице. Доля умеющих писать и читать на родном языке составляет 1 %—5 % всех представителей ваура. Доля освоивших письменный португальский язык — 5 %—15 %.

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