Korebaju, Coreguaje | |
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Ko'reuaju | |
Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 2,100 (2008)[1] |
Tucanoan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | coe |
Glottolog | kore1283 |
ELP | Coreguaje |
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Korebaju, Coreguaje (Korewaje, Ko'reuaju) is a Tucanoan language of Colombia.
The language was spoken in the film Out of the Dark.
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Koreguaje has 6 vowels. All vowels have nasalized forms:
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
Open | a ã |
Consonants
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||||
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʰʷ | kʰ | kʰʷ | |||||
Affricate | dʒ | dʒʷ | ||||||||
Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | ɲ̥ | |||||||
voiced | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
Fricative | voiceless | ʍ | s | sʷ | h | |||||
voiced | w | |||||||||
Flap | ɾ | ɾʷ |
- /ɾ/ can be heard as retrofex [ɽ] in initial positions.
- /w/ can fluctuate to a voiced fricative [β] in free variation.
- /ʍ/ can be he heard as [ɸ] or [f] when preceding /i/.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Korebaju, Coreguaje at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Cook, Dorothy M.; Criswell, Linda L. (1993). El idioma koreguaje (Tucano Occidental). Bogotá: Santafé de Bogotá: Asociación Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.