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 . The Mastanawa dialect may belong to either Sharanawa or Yaminawa, although the Mastanawa regarded their language to be identical with Sharanawa.
Phonology
Consonants +Sharanawa consonantsBilabialAlveolarPostalveolarRetroflexPalatalVelarGlottalStopptkAffricatetstʃFricativeɸsʃ2ʂ2h1NasalmnApproximantjwTap/Flapɾ
Pike and Scott (1962) indicate that is velar. and are contrastive only when preceding or .
Vowels +FrontCentralBackplainnasalplainnasalplainnasalHighiĩɨɨ̃uũLowaã
Tone Sharanawa is a tonal language. It distinguishes high tone, marked with an acute accent, and low tone, which is unmarked.
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