Language name: YUCUNA
UPSID number: 6843
Alternate name(s):
Classification: South American, Macro-Arawakan
This language has 21 segments
Its Frequency index is 0.525393306 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments)
The language has these sounds: ph th p t k ? tS h s m n n_ r[ l[ j w i u "o E a
Comment: /s/ and /h/ are in free variation in most words. /w/ may be a bilabial approximant. Nasalization of vowels seems to be associated with /h/.
Source(s): Schauer, S. and J. 1967. Yucuna phonemics. Phonemic Systems of Colombian Languages. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Norman.

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