Epena
Language code
sja
Location
3°00'00"N 77°00'00"W
Family
Choco
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Aspirated stop | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| Plain stop/affricate | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ | |
| Voiced stop | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i ĩ iː | ɨ ɨ̃ ɨː | u ũ uː |
| Mid | e ẽ eː | ə ə̃ əː | o õ oː |
| Low | a ã aː |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Harms, Phillip L. 1984. Fonología del epena pedee (saija). In Sistemas fonológicas de idiomas colombianos 5. Lomalinda: Editorial Townsend. 157-201.
Harms, Phillip L. 1994. Epena Pedee syntax: Studies in the languages of Colombia 4. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 118. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. 4.