Language name: |
AKAWAIO |
UPSID number: |
6853 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
South American, Macro-Carib |
This language has |
23 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.458305215 (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
"d
g
"s
"z
m
"n
"rr
j
w
i
"e
a
"o
u
i_
"@
ai
au
Oi
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Comment: |
Akawaio is spoken in the Mazanini river basin in Guyana. /s,z/ are palato-alveolar affricates adjacent to /i/. |
Source(s): |
Edwards, W.F. 1978. Some synchronic and diachronic aspects of Akawaio phonology. Anthropological Linguistics 20: 77-84. |