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p b         *t *d             k ɡ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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              *z ʃ ʒ                         h  
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Selected languages: Bakairi
UPSID number: 6856
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: South American, Macro-Carib
The languages has 29 segments
Frequency index: N/A
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Comments:

Bakairi is spoken in the Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Wheatley, (1969, 1973) provides only sketchy information
on the phonology. In particular it is not clear which
vowels occur nasalized, but examples are cited with the
nasalized vowels shown.

Sources:

Wheatley, J. 1973. Pronouns and nominal elements in
Bacairi discourse. Linguistics 104: 105-115.

Wheatley, J. 1969. Bakairi verb structure. Linguistics 47:
80-100.