Apalaí language
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Apalaí is a Cariban language spoken in Brazil. Approximately 450 Aparai people speak Apalaí. It is an agglutinative language which uses a rare object–verb–subject word order.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | ||||
| voiced | z | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Tap/Flap | ɾ |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | nasal | plain | nasal | plain | nasal | |
| High | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | u | ũ |
| Mid | e | ẽ | o | õ | ||
| Low | a | ã |