Carapana (Karapanã, Carapana-tapuya, Möxdöá) is a Tucanoan language of Colombia and Brazil.
Phonology
Carapana has 11 consonants.
- alternate with /, , /.
- become [, , ] before nasal vowels. They become [, , ] after nasal vowels.
- alternate with at the beginning of a word, e.g., .
- 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.
It also has 6 vowels and their nasalized forms, plus high and low tones.
- The mid vowels are phonetically [, , , ].
- Mid tone is an allotone of the low tone.
Orthography
Metzger and Metzger use the following orthography.
References
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