Variety Xeta (Tupian)

Form Concept Segments

Consonants

Pulmonic Consonants
Place → Labial Coronal Dorsal Laryngeal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labio­dental Linguo­labial Dental Alveolar Palato-
alveolar		 Retroflex Alveolo-
palatal		 Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
/ Epiglottal		 Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋʷ ŋ
Stop p b t d d̥ k kʷ g gʷ ʔ
Sibilant affricate ts tʃ dʒ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ʃ ʒ
Non-sibilant fricative β ɣ h
Approximant j
Flap or tap
Trill r
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap
Implosive

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open iunrounded close front vowel ĩnasalized unrounded close front vowel ɨunrounded close central vowel ũnasalized rounded close back vowel urounded close back vowel úrounded close back with-high_tone vowel ʊrounded near-close near-back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel ëcentralized unrounded close-mid front vowel ẽnasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel ɤunrounded close-mid back vowel õnasalized rounded close-mid back vowel ə̃nasalized unrounded mid central vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ɔrounded open-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel ãnasalized unrounded open front vowel áunrounded open front with-high_tone vowel
Vowels

Other segments

    
Other segments
 eo from unrounded close-mid front to rounded close-mid back diphthong
 w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
 ua from rounded close back to unrounded open front diphthong
 mb from voiced bilabial nasal to voiced bilabial stop cluster
 au from unrounded open front to rounded close back diphthong