| Language name: | PIRAHA |
| UPSID number: | 6802 |
| Alternate name(s): | MURA-PIRAHA~, MURA |
| Classification: | South American, Paezan |
| This language has | 11 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.618020560 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b "t k g ? "s h i a "o |
| Comment: | |
| Source(s): | Everett, D.L. 1982. Phonetic rarities in Piraha. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 12/2: 94-96. Rodrigues, A.D. 1980. Contribuicoes das linguas Brasileiras para a fonetica e a fonologia. XII Reuniao Brasileira de Antropologia, Rio de Janeiro. Sheldon, S.N. 1974. Some morphophonemic and tone perturbation rules in Mura-Piraha~. International Journal of American Linguistics 40: 279-82. |