Carapana language

Phonology

• alternate with /,, /.
• become before nasal vowels. They become after nasal vowels.
• alternate with at the beginning of a word, e.g., báì .
• alternates with.
• has three variants
• * next to nasal vowels
• * before oral vowels, at the beginning of a word, and
• * elsewhere.
• are often before front vowels.
• alternates with pre-stopped.
• become before nasal vowels.

• The mid vowels are phonetically .
• Mid tone is an allotone of the low tone.

Orthography

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