| Language name: | SALIBA |
| UPSID number: | 6861 |
| Alternate name(s): | SALIVA |
| Classification: | South American, Equatorial |
| This language has | 32 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.396687916 (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 d g gW tS dZ P x h B s m n n_ r[ r l i "e a "o u i~ "e~ a~ "o~ u~ |
| Comment: | Saliba is spoken mainly along the river Meta in Colombia. The language seems to have a pitch accent system. Voiced bilabial fricative is realised as [w] next to a rounded vowel. |
| Source(s): | Benaissa, T. 1979. Fonologia del Saliba. Sistemas Fonologicos de Idiomas Colombianos 4: 89-98. |