Phonology
Hixkaryana has the following consonant phonemes:
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar or palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | tʃ | ɟ | k | |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | ɽˡ | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||
- /ɽˡ/ is a retroflex tap with a lateral release.
- The orthography used is as follows: /tʃ ɟ/ =
; /ɸ ʃ/ = ; /ɲ/ = ; /ɽˡ/ = ; /j/ = .
The vowels are /e/, /ɯ/, /u/, /ɔ/, and /æ/, written ⟨e⟩, ⟨ɨ⟩, ⟨u⟩, ⟨o⟩, and ⟨a⟩.
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