Variety Tupinambá (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 ŋ ɴ
Stop p pʷ t k kʷ gʷ g ʔ
Sibilant affricate
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s ʃ
Non-sibilant fricative β
Approximant j
Flap or tap ɾ
Trill
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 íunrounded close front with-high_tone vowel ɨunrounded close central vowel ɨ̃nasalized unrounded close central vowel urounded close back vowel úrounded close back with-high_tone vowel ũnasalized rounded close back vowel éunrounded close-mid front with-high_tone vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel ẽnasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel órounded close-mid back with-high_tone vowel õnasalized rounded close-mid back vowel aunrounded open front vowel áunrounded open front with-high_tone vowel ãnasalized unrounded open front vowel
Vowels

Other segments

  
Other segments
 nd from voiced alveolar nasal to voiced alveolar stop cluster
 mb from voiced bilabial nasal to voiced bilabial stop cluster
 ŋg from voiced velar nasal to voiced velar stop cluster