Guayabero language
Appearance
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Guayabero | |
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Jiw | |
Native to | Colombia |
Region | Upper Guaviaré River |
Ethnicity | 1,120 (2011)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2008)[1] |
Guajiboan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | guo |
Glottolog | guay1257 |
ELP | Guayabero |
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Guayabero is a Guahiban language that is spoken by a thousand people in Colombia. Many of its speakers are monoglots, with few fluent Spanish speakers in the population.
Phonology
[edit]The Guayabero syllable structure can be represented as CV(V)(C)(C). Each syllable has an obligatory single consonant onset and a nucleus of one or two vowels. An optional coda of at most two consonants can occur in both word-medial and final positions.[2]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |||
voiced | b | d | |||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ | ||||||
Fricative | ɸ | s | x | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Approximant | l | j | w | ||||
Flap | ɾ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Guayabero at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Keels J (1985). "Guayabero: Phonology and morphophonemics" (PDF). Language Data. Amerindian Series. 9: 57–87. ISBN 0-88312-091-7.
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.