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Guayabero language

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Guayabero
Jiw
Native toColombia
RegionUpper Guaviaré River
Ethnicity1,120 (2011)[1]
Native speakers
1,000 (2008)[1]
Guajiboan
  • Southwest
    • Guayabero
Language codes
ISO 639-3guo
Glottologguay1257
ELPGuayabero

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

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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]

Consonants [3]
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
Vowels
Front Central Back
High i ɨ u
Mid e o
Low a

References

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  1. ^ a b Guayabero at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Keels J (1985). "Guayabero: Phonology and morphophonemics" (PDF). Language Data. Amerindian Series. 9: 57–87. ISBN 0-88312-091-7.
  3. ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.