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   b         t               k kʷ      
 
 
 
 
  
 
Nasal
   m           n                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                            
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
Tap, Flap
                                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
       ɺ            
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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             s                               h  
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
   β̞                       j                    
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Warao
UPSID number: 6852
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: S. American, Paezan
The languages has 21 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds: [b] [t] [kʷ] [k] [s] [ɺ] [β̞] [j] [m] [n] [ĩ] [ũ] [õ] [ɛ̃] [ä̃] [i] [u] [o] [ɛ] [ä] [h]
Comments: Warao is spoken principally along the Venezuelan coast from the Orinoco delta to the Guyana border. Osborn (1966) lists /p/ rather /b/ as the bilabial stop phoneme, but reports that "the voiced allopyhone [b] is heard more frequently than the voiceless [p]". /t/ "has the allophone [t] in all positions". The alveolar lateral flap occurs as [d] word-initially and as a nonlateral flap before /a/ when preceded by /i,a/. Nasalized vowels occur mostly . Nasality spreads from a nasal consonant to all following vowels and glides between the nasal and a following obstruent or word-boundary but a number of words also have unconditioned nasalized vowels.
Sources: Osborn, H.A. 1966. Warao I: phonology and morphophonemics. International Journal of American Linguistics 32/2: 108-123.