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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 |
| Sounds: | [p] [b] [*t] [*d] [k] [ɡ] [*s] [*z] [ʃ] [ʒ] [*R] [*l] [w] [j] [m] [*n] [ĩ] [ũ] [ẽ] [õ] [ä̃] [i] [u] [e] [ɘ] [o] [ɛ] [ä] [h] |
| 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. |