Abawiri (foau1240-1)

Yoder, Brendon. The Abawiri tone system in typological perspective. 2016. hh:ld:Yoder:Abawiri

Consonants (17)

b t d k g
dʒʷ
f s
r

Vowels (7)

i y u
ɛ
a ɒ

Tones (3)

˥ ˩

Notes

Abawiri /i̝ y/ are cognate to /ɿ ꭒ/ in other Lakes Plain languages. There is no audible frication in Abawiri /i̝/.

The tone system is complicated; there are only two tones plus one floating tone (written here as /↓/), and tone contrasts with tonelessness. Here we include the tone melodies.

Allophonic rules