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Akuwẽ language spoken in Brazil
A sound is heard as an allophone of /k/ when preceding another consonant.
/d/ can be heard as dental when preceding /i/.
/s/ can be heard as a post-alveolar or retroflex sibilant sound when preceding /i/.
/h/ when preceding /i/ can be heard as a voiced velar or glottal fricative sound .
/h/ when preceding /k/ can be heard as a velar fricative sound .
/n/ when preceding the following vowels /i, õ, ɔ/ can be heard as a palatal nasal .
/ɾ/ may also be heard as a retroflex flap .
Grammar
Personal pronouns
Person
Nominative
Emphatic
Absolutive
Tense-Aspect-Mood-Person
markers
1S
wa
wahã
ĩ-
wa-
1P
wanõrĩ (nĩ)
-
wa-
2S
ka, toka
kahã
ai-
bî-, te-
2P
kanõrĩ (kwa), tokanõrĩ
-
3S
ta
tahã
Ø-, ã-, ti-, t-
Ø-, mã-, te-
3P
tanõrĩ
tahãnõrĩ
The nominative and emphatic forms are free morphemes with the function of subject of transitive or intransitive sentences. The absolutive pronoun prefixes mark possessors, objects of postpositions, direct objects, subjects of nominal predicates and subjects of intransitive verbs with post-verbal operators.
Brazil (Tocantínia)