title: Mehinaku language
text: # 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 | | |
  