Karajá phonology

Karajá has nine oral vowels,, and two nasal vowels,. is nasalized word initially and when preceded by or a voiced stop:  →  'grass',  →  'armadillo'; this in turn nasalizes a preceding  or :  →  'group',  →  'my mother'.

This language has vowel harmony that matches vowels' tenseness to the vowel of the following suffix.

V → [+ATR] / _ (C)-V[+ATR]

There are only twelve consonants, eight of which are coronal: