Apurinã language

Apurinã
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonia
Native speakers	2,800 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Arawakan Southern Piro Apurinã
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`apu`
Glottolog	`apur1254`^[2]

Apurinã (Ipurina) is a Southern Maipurean language spoken in Amazonia by the Apurinã people. It has an active–stative syntax.^[3]

Phonology

Apurinã vowels are obligatorily nasalized by surrounding nasal vowels, even across word boundaries.^[4]

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar or palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Plosive	p	t		k
Affricate		t͡s	t͡ʃ
Fricative		s	ʃ		h
Flap		ɾ
Approximant			j	p

↑ Apurinã at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Apurinã". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
↑ The World Atlas of Language Structures Online – Chapter 10 – Vowel Nasalization

Da Silva Facundes, Sidney. The Language of the Apurinã People of Brazil (Maipure/Arawak). Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY Buffalo.
Aberdour, Cathie – Referential Devices in Apurinã Discourse
ELAR – archive of Apurinã language documentation materials
Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Apurinã". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.

Arawakan (Maipurean) languages

Northern

Palikuran

Wapishanan

Western Nawiki	Achawa Amarizana Anauyá Cabiyari (?) Cabre (?) Guarú Kawishana Mandawaca Mariaté Pasé Piapoco Resígaro (?) Warekena Waraikú (?) Wainumá Wiriná (?) Yabaâna (?) Yucuna Yumana

Eastern Nawiki	Baniwa Kurripako Tariana

Central Upper Amazon	Baré Baniwa of Guainia Guinao Maipure Marawá Yavitero

Manao	Kariaí Manao Shiriana (?)

Southern

Western	Chamicuro Yanesha'

Central Maipurean	Agavotaguerra (?) Custenau Paresí Saraveca Waura–Mehináku Yawalapití

Piro	Apurinã Iñapari Mashco Piro Piro Kanamaré

Bolivia–Parana	Baure Chané Enawené-Nawé (?) Lapachu Moxos Pauna Terêna

Campa	Asháninka Ashéninga Axininca Caquinte Machiguenga Nomatsiguenga Pucapucari

Unclassified

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