Tapirapé (also known as Apyãwa and Tapi'irape) is a Tupí-Guaraní language of Brazil spoken near the Araguaia River, in the border of the states of Mato Grosso and Tocantins.
[6] Ribeiro (2012) finds a number of Apyãwa loanwords in Karajá (such as bèhyra 'carrying basket', kòmỹdawyra 'andu beans', hãrara 'macaw (sp.
Some of the latter loans are also found in other Tupí-Guaraní languages closely related to Apyãwa, such as Parakanã and Asuriní of Trocará (sata 'banana', toria 'White man').
The phoneme /e/ represents both [e̞] and [ɛ], depending on the height variation of the tongue in one's mouth.
[9] Yonne Leite, in his article about the syllabic structure of Tapirapé, mentions that /j/ has five possible allophones: [tʃ], [tʲ], [ɲ], and [j̃].