Mehinaku language
# Mehinaku language

Mehináku (Meinaku) is an Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil. One dialect, Waurá-kumá, is "somewhat intelligible" with Waurá due to influence from this language.

## Phonology

Mehináku features five vowels /a e i ɨ u/ which can be either oral or nasal /ã ẽ ĩ ɨ̃ ũ/.

The language has thirteen consonants.

Mehináku Consonants :

| | Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plosive | p | t | | | | k | |
| Affricate | | ts | tʃ | | | | |
| Fricative | | | | ʂ | | | h |
| Nasal | m | n | | | | | |
| Lateral | | l | | | | | |
| Tap | | ɾ | | | | | |
| Approximant | w | | | | j | | |
