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Waurá (Wauja) is an Arawakan language spoken in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil by the Waujá people. ^[2] It is "partially intelligible" with Mehináku. The entire population speaks the language. ^[1]

Phonology

Consonants

• A glottal stop [ʔ] occurs phonetically before vowels in word-initial position, or after vowels in word-final position.
• /p/ can be heard as aspirated [pʰ] or voiced [b] in free variation.
• Stop sounds /t, k/ can be heard as aspirated [tʰ, kʰ] in free variation.
• /w/ can also be heard as [β] in free variation, except when before /u/.
• /s/ can be heard as voiced [z] when between vowels, or after initial vowels.
• /ʐ/ can be heard as voiceless [ʂ] when between vowels, or after initial vowels.
• /j/ can be heard as a palatal nasal [ɲ] when occurring before nasal vowels /ã, ẽ, ũ/.

Vowels

• Sounds /i, u, ɨ, a/ can also be heard in lax form as [ɪ, ʊ, ə, ɐ].
• Sounds /e, eː, ẽ/ can be heard as close-mid [e, eː, ẽ] or open-mid [ɛ, ɛː, ɛ̃] in free variation. ^[3]

References