Language Kaiowa

Coordinates WGS8424°35'S, 54°41'W
-24.59, -54.68
Concept Portuguese Orthographic form Tokens Simple Cognate Partial Cognate Morphemes
Pulmonic Consonants
Place → Labial Coronal Dorsal Laryngeal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labio­dental Linguo­labial Dental Alveolar Palato-
alveolar
Retroflex Alveolo-
palatal
Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
/ Epiglottal
Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Stop p b b t d d  k  g ʔ
Sibilant affricate
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ʃ
Non-sibilant fricative β f v h
Approximant l j
Flap or tap ɾ
Trill r
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap
Implosive
Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open iunrounded close front vowel nasalized unrounded close front vowel ɨ̃nasalized unrounded close central vowel ɨunrounded close central vowel nasalized rounded close back vowel urounded close back vowel rounded close back with-high_tone vowel unrounded close-mid front with-high_tone vowel nasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel nasalized rounded close-mid back vowel rounded close-mid back with-high_tone vowel orounded close-mid back vowel unrounded open front with-high_tone vowel aunrounded open front vowel long unrounded open front vowel nasalized unrounded open front vowel
Vowels
Other phonemes
oa from rounded close-mid back to unrounded open front diphthong
eu from unrounded close-mid front to rounded close back diphthong
w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
ɨ́i from unrounded close central with-high_tone to unrounded close front diphthong
ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
áɨ from unrounded open front with-high_tone to unrounded close central diphthong
ae from unrounded open front to unrounded close-mid front diphthong
ai from unrounded open front to unrounded close front diphthong
ue from rounded close back to unrounded close-mid front diphthong
ɨa from unrounded close central to unrounded open front diphthong
eĩ from unrounded close-mid front to nasalized unrounded close front diphthong
oĩ from rounded close-mid back to nasalized unrounded close front diphthong
ui from rounded close back to unrounded close front diphthong
ói from rounded close-mid back with-high_tone to unrounded close front diphthong
ɨi from unrounded close central to unrounded close front diphthong
ɨ̃i from nasalized unrounded close central to unrounded close front diphthong