Guayabero language
| Guayabero | |
|---|---|
| Jiw | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Upper Guaviaré River |
| Ethnicity | 1,120 (2011)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2008)[1] |
Guajiboan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guo |
| Glottolog | guay1257 |
| ELP | Guayabero |
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[]
Guayabero has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.[2]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |||
| voiced | b | d | |||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | x | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
References[]
- ^ a b Guayabero at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
Categories:
- Languages of Colombia
- Guajiboan languages
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs