Mawé | |
Nativename: | Sataré |
States: | Brazil |
Ethnicity: | Mawé people |
Date: | 2008 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Tupian |
Iso3: | mav |
Glotto: | sate1243 |
Glottorefname: | Sateré-Mawé |
The Mawé language of Brazil, also known as Sateré (Mabue, Maragua, Andira, Arapium), is one of the Tupian languages. It is spoken by 7,000 people, many of them monolingual.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Tap | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Front | Central | Back | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
High | i ĩ iː | ɨ ɨː | u ũ uː | |
Mid | e ẽ eː | o | ||
Low | a ã aː |