| Language name: | CAYUVAVA |
| UPSID number: | 6840 |
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| Classification: | South American, Equatorial |
| This language has | 33 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.400524088 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t k b dD h B s S tS dZ m n n_ r[ j w i i_ u "o E O aa a i~ i_~ u~ "o~ E~ O~ aa~ a~ |
| Comment: | Initial /b,d/ have optional prenasalization. These and /dZ/ and /B/ are also prenasalized after nasalized consonants. Key analyzes /j,w/ as allophones of /i,u/ predictable from stress facts, but examples given conflict with his rule. |
| Source(s): | Key, H. 1961. Phonotactics of Cayuvava. International Journal of American Linguistics 27/2: 143-50. |