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.
| Guayabero | |
|---|---|
| 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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Phonology
editThe 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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