Language name: |
YUCUNA |
UPSID number: |
6843 |
Alternate name(s): |
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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. |