title: Nadëb language
text: # Nadëb language
  
  Nadëb or Kaburi is a Nadahup language of the Brazilian Amazon, along the Uneiuxi, Japura, and Negro rivers. Various names for it include Nadöbö, Xïriwai, Hahöb, Guariba/Wariwa, Kaborí, Anodöub, sometimes compounded with the term Maku, as in Maku do Paraná Boá-Boá after one of the rivers in Nadëb territory.
  
  ## Phonology
  
  | | Front | Back | Back |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Front | unrounded | rounded |
  | Close | i | ɯ | u |
  | Close-mid | e | ɤ | o |
  | Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ |
  | Open | a | | |
  
  All vowels except for /e, ɤ, o/ have nasalized counterparts.
  
  ### Consonants
  
  | | | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Nasal | Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
  | Plosive | voiceless | p | t | | k | ʔ |
  | Plosive | voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | ʔ |
  | Fricative | Fricative | | | ʃ | | h |
  | Flap | Flap | | ɾ | | | |
  | Semivowel | Semivowel | | | j | w | |
  