Abstract
Abstract Jarawara, which belongs to the small Arawa ‘ language family, is spoken as first language by about I70 Indians who live in seven villages near the Puru ‘ s River, a major southern tributary of the Amazon, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Jarawara has a (C)V syllable structure and an inventory of just eleven consonant and four vowel phonemes. Vowel length is contrastive but has a low functional load. The language is basically agglutinative but there are many morphophonological processes of vowel assimilation and of the omission of an underlying -h- or -hV- in certain phonological and morphological environments. Jarawara shows multiple lexical and grammatical homonymy.
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