| Language name: | JAPRERIA |
| UPSID number: | 6848 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | South American, Macro-Carib |
| This language has | 24 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.456577975 (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 ? tS b h S m "n l[ j i i_ u "e "o a i~ i_~ u~ "e~ "o~ a~ |
| Comment: | /b/ includes bilabial and labial-velar approximant allophones. The central high vowel only occurs in penultimate syllables under weak stress -- it is not clear if it could be regarded as a variant of one of the other vowels. |
| Source(s): | Durbin, M. and Seijas, H. 1972. The phonological structure of the Western Carib languages of the Sierra de Perija, Venezuela. Atti del XL Congresso Internalzionale degli Americanisti. vol. III: 69-77. |