Kubeo

Language code

cub

Location

1°20'42"N 70°27'50"W

Family

Tucanoan

Consonants	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plain stop/affricate	p		t	tʃ		k
Voiced stop	b		d
Fricative							h
Approximant		ð̞			j	w
Tap, flap			ɾ

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

Suprasegmental

Nasal harmony, tone

Bibliography

Chacon, Thiago Costa. 2012. The phonology and morphology of Kubeo: the documentation, theory, and description of an Amazonian language. PhD diss, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Morse, Nancy and Michael Maxwell. 1999. Gramática del cubeo. Bogotá: Editorial Alberto Lleras Camargo.

Ferguson, Judith, Cari Hollinger, Linda Criswell, and Nancy Morse. 2000. El Cubeo. In Maria Stella González de Pérez and María Luisa Rodríguez de Montes (eds.), Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: Una visión descriptiva. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. 357-372.

Notes

There is modest evidence for a contrastive voiced interdental fricative phoneme, which Morse and Maxwell (1999: 5) prefer to treat as an allophone of /j/.

Ferguson (et al.) appear to posit a glottal fricative where Morse and Maxwell (1999) posit a velar fricative, but this is not entirely clear.