| Language name: | AKAWAIO |
| UPSID number: | 6853 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| 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 |
| 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. |