Wiktionary:About Araweté

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Orthography

Araweté entries shall use the orthography proposed by Heurich,^[1] with the exception of the glottal stop /ʔ/ being represented by the modifier letter apostrophe ⟨ʼ⟩ [U+02BC]. This is a problem with other Tupian languages that's going to be adressed from the start.

Consonants
Phoneme	Phone	Grapheme
p		p
t	t	t
t	t͡s	ts^{[note 1]}
t͡ʃ		x
d	d	d
d	dᶻ	dz
k		k
ʔ		ʼ
m		m
n		n
w		w
r	ɾ	r
h		h
j		j
Vowels
Phoneme	Phone	Grapheme
i		i
ĩ		ĩ
ɨ		ɨ
ɨ̃		ɨ̃
u	u, ɯ, ʊ, ɤ	u
u	o	o
ũ	ũ, ɯ̃, ʊ̃, ɤ̃	ũ
ũ	õ	õ
e		e
ẽ		ẽ
a	a	a
a	ã	ã^{[note 2]}

^ before /i/, /ĩ/, /ɨ/, /ɨ̃/
^ at the end of words; ⟨a⟩ elsewhere

References

^ Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (2015) “Nota sobre a grafia da língua Araweté”, in Música, morte e esquecimento na arte verbal Araweté‎^[1] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ, page 14

[2] re /i/, /ĩ/, /ɨ/, /ɨ̃/

[3] t the end of words; ⟨a⟩ elsewhere

[1] Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (2015) “Nota sobre a grafia da língua Araweté”, in Música, morte e esquecimento na arte verbal Araweté‎^[1] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ, page 14

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