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Sharanawa
Sharanawa
Sharanahua
Arara, Sharanahuan tsain
Native to	Peru
Ethnicity	Sharanawa
Native speakers	(450 cited 2000)
Language family	Pano–Tacanan Panoan Amawaka–Jaminawa Sharanawa; ; ;
Dialects	Marinawa; Chandinawa; Mastanawa;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mcd
Glottolog	shar1245

Sharanawa (Acre Arara) is a Panoan language of Peru. There are 200 Sharanawa (meaning 'good people') in Brazil, but only 3 speak the language. Its speakers call the language Arara.^[1] The Mastanawa dialect may belong to either Sharanawa or Yaminawa, although the Mastanawa regarded their language to be identical with Sharanawa.

Phonology

Consonants

Sharanawa consonants^[2]
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p	t				k
Affricate		ts	tʃ
Fricative	ɸ	s	ʃ²	ʂ²			h¹
Nasal	m	n
Approximant					j	w
Tap/Flap		ɾ

Pike and Scott (1962) indicate that [h] is velar.
[ʃ] and [ʂ] are contrastive only when preceding [a] or [ã].^[3]

Vowels

^[2]
	Front		Central		Back
	plain	nasal	plain	nasal	plain	nasal
High	i	ĩ	ɨ	ɨ̃	u	ũ
Low			a	ã

Tone

Sharanawa is a tonal language.^[2] It distinguishes high tone, marked with an acute accent, and low tone, which is unmarked.^[3]

References

↑ "A Survey of the Languages of the Upper Purus River". www.sil.org.
1 2 3 Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Sharanawa language". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
1 2 Pike, Eunice; Scott, Eugene (1962-01-01). "The Phonological Hierarchy of Marinahua". Phonetica. 8 (1–3): 1–8. doi:10.1159/000258115. ISSN 1423-0321.

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[1] "A Survey of the Languages of the Upper Purus River". www.sil.org.

[:0-2] 1 2 3 Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Sharanawa language". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.

[:1-3] 1 2 Pike, Eunice; Scott, Eugene (1962-01-01). "The Phonological Hierarchy of Marinahua". Phonetica. 8 (1–3): 1–8. doi:10.1159/000258115. ISSN 1423-0321.

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