Nomatsiguenga (Matsigenka) is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is close enough to Machiguenga to sometimes be considered dialects of a single language, especially given that both are spoken by the Machiguenga people. Most speakers are monolingual.
Phonology According to Lawrence, Nomatsiguenga has the following consonant and vowel phonemes.
+ Nomatsiguenga consonants Bilabial Dental Alveo-palatal Velar Glottal UnspecifiedNasal N Stop Voiceless Voiced Fricative Affricate Liquid Semivowel
The archiphoneme is the only consonant that can appear word-medially or in a syllable coda.
+ Nomatsiguenga vowelsFrontCentralBack High Mid Low
The diphthong does not have a long counterpart, nor does it pattern with the other phonemic diphthongs.
Nomatsiguenga has three phonemic diphthongs: , , and .
Grammar Nomatsiguenga is one of the few languages in the world that has two different causative mechanisms to denote whether the causer was involved in the activity with the causee or not. The prefix is used to express the idea that the causer was not involved in the activity, while the suffix is used when the causer is involved. Cited in
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