Mehináku (Meinaku) is an
Arawakan language spoken by the
Mehinaku people in the
Xingu Indigenous Park
The Xingu Indigenous Park (, pronounced ) is an indigenous territory of Brazil, first created in 1961 as a national park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Its official purposes are to protect the environment and the several tribes of Xingu in ...
of
Brazil
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.
[Seki, Lucy. 2011]
Alto Xingu: uma área linguística?
In: Franchetto, Bruna (ed.),
Alto Xingu: uma sociedade multilíngue
', p. 57-85. Rio de Janeiro: Museu do Índio/FUNAI. One dialect, Waurá-kumá, is "somewhat
intelligible" with
Waurá due to influence from this language.
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Phonology
Mehináku features five vowels /a e i ɨ u/ which can be either oral or nasal /ã ẽ ĩ ɨ̃ ũ/.
References
Arawakan languages
Languages of Xingu Indigenous Park
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