Carapano (Karapanã, Carapana-tapuya, Möxdöá) is a
Tucanoan language of
Colombia
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and
Brazil
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.
Phonology
Carapano 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
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of the low tone.
Orthography
Metzger and Metzger use the following orthography.
References
Works cited
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Languages of Colombia
Tucanoan languages
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