Yanomám, also Waiká (or Yanomae, Yanomama, Yanomami),Ferreira, Helder Perri; Machado, Ana Maria Antunes; Senra, Estevão Benfica. 2019. As línguas Yanomami no Brasil: diversidade e vitalidade. São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) and Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN). 216pp. is one of several closely related languages spoken by the Yanomami people in Brazil. Most speakers are monolingual. For a grammatical description, see Yanomaman languages.
The names Waika (Guaica) and Yanomami are shared with the Yanomamö language.
Phonology
Consonants LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalPlosiveplainaspiratedFricativeApproximantNasalFlap /ɾ/ may aso be realized as [l].Ferreira, Helder Perri; Machado, Ana Maria Antunes; Senra, Estevão Benfica. 2019. As línguas Yanomami no Brasil: diversidade e vitalidade. São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) and Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN). 216pp. A glottal stop [ʔ] occurs between vowels but is not phonemic. The language does not distinguish voiced and voiceless stops, and the stops may be realized as either voiced or voiceless.
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