Mehinaku language
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Mehináku (Meinaku) is an Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil. One dialect, Waurá-kumá, is "somewhat intelligible" with Waurá due to influence from this language.
Phonology
Mehináku features five vowels /a e i ɨ u/ which can be either oral or nasal /ã ẽ ĩ ɨ̃ ũ/.
The language has thirteen consonants.
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | k | ||||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | |||||
| Fricative | ʂ | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j |