Apurinã language

Apurinã
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonia
Native speakers	2,000 (date missing)
Language family	Arawakan Southern Piro Apurinã; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	apu
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Apurinã (Ipurina) is a Southern Maipurean language spoken in Amazonia by the Apurinã people. It has an active–stative syntax.^[1]

Phonology [edit]

Apurinã vowels are obligatorily nasalized by surrounding nasal vowels^{[clarification needed]}, even across word boundaries.^[2]

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar or palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Plosive	p	t		k
Affricate		t͡s	t͡ʃ
Fricative		s	ʃ		h
Flap		ɾ
Approximant			j	ɰ

Da Silva Facundes, Sidney. The Language of the Apurinā People of Brazil (Maipure/Arawak). Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY Buffalo. [1]

^ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
^ The World Atlas of Language Structures Online – Chapter 10 – Vowel Nasalization

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