| Language name: | PAYA |
| UPSID number: | 6854 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | South American, Chibchan |
| This language has | 28 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.439974659 (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 kW ? b h "s S m "n nj "r[ "r "l j w w~ i "e a "o u i~ "e~ a~ "o~ u~ |
| Comment: | Paya is spoken in the Olancho department of Honduras. It is possible that some diphthongs and long vowel segments should be recognized. /d,g/ occur in recent Spanish loans. |
| Source(s): | Holt, D.G. 1986. The Development of the Paya Sound-System. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles. |