Shipibo language#Phonology

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Shipibo has three attested dialects:

• Shipibo and Konibo (Conibo), which have merged
• Kapanawa of the Tapiche River,{{sfnp|Fleck|2013|p=18}} which is obsolescent

Extinct Xipináwa (Shipinawa) is thought to have been a dialect as well,{{sfnp|Fleck|2013|p=14}} but there is no linguistic data.

Image:Shipibo monophthongs chart.svgs of Shipibo, from {{Harvcoltxt|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=282}}]]

• {{IPA|/i/}} and {{IPA|/o/}} are lower than their cardinal counterparts (in addition to being more front in the latter case): {{IPAblink|i̞}}, {{IPAblink|o̞|o̽}}, {{IPA|/ɯ/}} is more front than cardinal {{IPAblink|ɯ}}: {{IPAblink|ɯ|ɯ̟}}, whereas {{IPA|/a/}} is more close and more central {{IPAblink|ɐ}} than cardinal {{IPAblink|a}}. The first three vowels tend to be somewhat more central in closed syllables, whereas {{IPA|/ɯ/}} before coronal consonants (especially {{IPA|/n, t, s/}}) can be as central as {{IPAblink|ɨ}}.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|pp=282–283}}
• In connected speech, two adjacent vowels may be realized as a rising diphthong.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=283}}

• The oral vowels {{IPA|/i, ɯ, o, a/}} are phonetically nasalized {{IPA|[ĩ, ɯ̃, õ, ã]}} after a nasal consonant, but the phonological behaviour of these allophones is different from the nasal vowel phonemes {{IPA|/ĩ, ɯ̃, õ, ã/}}.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=282}}
• Oral vowels in syllables preceding syllables with nasal vowels are realized as nasal, but not when a consonant other than {{IPA|/w, j/}} intervenes.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=283}}

• The second one of the two adjacent unstressed vowels is often deleted.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=283}}
• Unstressed vowels may be devoiced or even elided between two voiceless obstruents.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=283}}

• {{IPA|/m, p, β/}} are bilabial, whereas {{IPA|/w/}} is labialized velar.
• {{IPA|/β/}} is most typically a fricative {{IPAblink|β}}, but other realizations (such as an approximant {{IPAblink|β̞}}, a stop {{IPAblink|b}} and an affricate {{IPAblink|bβ}}) also appear. The stop realization is most likely to appear in word-initial stressed syllables, whereas the approximant realization appears most often as onsets to non-initial unstressed syllables.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=282}}
• {{IPA|/n, ts, s/}} are alveolar {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|n}}, {{IPAplink|ts}}, {{IPAplink|s}}]}}, whereas {{IPA|/t/}} is dental {{IPAblink|t̪}}.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=281}}
• The {{IPA|/ʂ–ʃ/}} distinction can be described as an apical–laminal one.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=282}}
• {{IPA|/k/}} is velar, whereas {{IPA|/j/}} is palatal.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=281}}
• Before nasal vowels, {{IPA|/w, j/}} are nasalized {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|w̃}}, {{IPAplink|j̃}}]}} and may be even realized close to nasal stops {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|ŋ|ŋʷ}}, {{IPAplink|ɲ}}]}}.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=283}}
• {{IPA|/w/}} is realized as {{IPAblink|w}} before {{IPA|/a, ã/}}, as {{IPAblink|ɥ}} before {{IPA|/i, ĩ/}} and as {{IPAblink|ɰ}} before {{IPA|/ɯ, ɯ̃/}}. It does not occur before {{IPA|/o, õ/}}.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=283}}
• {{IPA|/ɻ/}} is a very variable sound:
• Intervocalically, it is realized either as continuant, with or without weak frication ({{IPAblink|ɻ}} or {{IPAblink|ʐ}}).{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=282}}
• Sometimes (especially in the beginning of a stressed syllable) it can be realized as a postalveolar affricate {{IPA|[d̠͡z̠]}}, or a stop-approximant sequence {{IPA|[d̠ɹ̠]}}.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=283}}
• It can also be realized as a postalveolar flap {{IPAblink|ɾ̠}}.{{sfnp|Valenzuela|Márquez Pinedo|Maddieson|2001|p=282}}

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• Loriot, James, Erwin Lauriault, and Dwight Day, compilers. 1993. Diccionario shipibo - castellano. Serie Lingüística Peruana, 31. Lima: Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 554 p. (Spanish zip-file available online http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/show_work.asp?id=928474530143&Lang=eng) This has a complete grammar published in English by SIL only available through SIL.
• {{citation

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|first1=Pilar M.

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|first2=Luis

|last3=Maddieson

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|year=2001

|title=Shipibo

|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association

|volume=31

|issue=2

|pages=281–285

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|doi=10.1017/S0025100301002109

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{{Commons category|Shipibo-Conibo}}

• [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/shp Shipibo-Conibo] at Ethnologue
• [http://www.proel.org/index.php?pagina=mundo/amerindia/ge_pano/panoan/shipibo Lengua Shipibo] at Proel
• [https://ids.clld.org/contributions/281 Shipibo-Conibo] (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)

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