Miwonša

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Introduction

Phonology

Consonants

	labial	alveolar	post-alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
plosive	p pʼ (b)	t tʼ (d)		c cʼ	k kʼ (g)
nasal	m	n		ɲ	(ŋ)
fricative	f (v)	s z (sʲ zʲ)	ʃ ʒ	ɕ	(x)	h
affricate		ts	tʃ dʒ	(tɕ tɕʼ)
trills		r
laterals		l (ɬ)		(ʎ)
approximants	w ʍ			j

Vowels

Monophthongs:

	front	central	back
high	i ĩ		u ũ
central	ɛ ɛ̃		ɔ ɔ̃
low		a ã

Diphthongs:

	front	central	back
high	iʊ̯		uɪ̯
central	ɛɪ̯		ɔɪ̯
low		aɪ̯ aʊ̯

Latin Orthography

Nouns

Adjectives

Pronouns

Determiners

Verbs

Finite Verbs forms

The slot model:

slot 1	slot 2		slot 3		slot 4		slot 5
VERB STEM	-wa-/-ya-	PAST	-im-	1SG.NOM	-im-	1SG.ACC	-an	IND.IPFV
			-iš-	2SG.NOM	-iš	2SG.ACC	-Ø-/-at-	IND.PFV
			-iw-/-if-/-it	3SG.NOM	-iw-/-it	3SG.ACC	-ui/-ao	IND.FUT
			-am-	1PL.NOM	-am-	1PL.ACC	-ai	COND
			-aš-	2PL.NOM	-aš-	2PL.ACC	-ai/-Ø	IPFV
			-aw-/-af-/-at	3PL.NOM	-aw-/-at	2PL.ACC
					-ar-	PASS
					-ast-	REFL
					-ahw-	RECP
					-asj-	IMPERS

Copula

Prepositions

Numbers

Syntax

Derivation