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Mehinaku language
Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people of Brazil From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mehináku (Meinaku) is an Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil.[2] One dialect, Waurá-kumá, is "somewhat intelligible" with Waurá due to influence from this language.[1]
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Phonology
Mehináku features five vowels /a e i ɨ u/ which can be either oral or nasal /ã ẽ ĩ ɨ̃ ũ/.[3]
The language has thirteen consonants.[3]
References
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