Apurinã language

Apurinã
Apurinã
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonia
Native speakers	2,800 (2006)
Language family	Arawakan Southern Piro Apurinã; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	apu
Glottolog	apur1254
ELP	Apuriná
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Apurinã (Ipurina) is a Southern Maipurean language spoken in Amazonia by the Apurinã people. It has an active–stative syntax.^[2]

Phonology

Apurinã vowels are obligatorily nasalized by surrounding nasal vowels^{[clarification needed]}, even across word boundaries.^[3]

	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

^ Apurinã at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
^ The World Atlas of Language Structures Online – Chapter 10 – Vowel Nasalization

Da Silva Facundes, Sidney. The Language of the Apurinã People of Brazil (Maipure/Arawak). Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY Buffalo.
Aberdour, Cathie – Referential Devices in Apurinã Discourse
ELAR – archive of Apurinã language documentation materials
Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Apurinã". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.