Mehináku (Meinaku) is an Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil.Seki, Lucy. 2011. Alto Xingu: uma área linguística? In: Franchetto, Bruna (ed.), Alto Xingu: uma sociedade multilíngue, p. 57-85. Rio de Janeiro: Museu do Índio/FUNAI. 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. +Mehináku ConsonantsLabialAlveolarPostalveolarRetroflexPalatalVelarGlottalPlosiveptkAffricatetstʃFricativeʂhNasalmnLaterallTapɾApproximantwj
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