Waimaha
Language code
bao
Location
0°19'37"N 70°16'37"W
Family
Tucanoan
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Plain stop | p | t | k | ||
| Voiced stop | b | d | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | h | ||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||
| Tap, flap | ɾ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Low | a ã |
Suprasegmental
Tone
Bibliography
Stolte, Joel and Nancy Stolte. 1976. Fonología del barasano del norte. In Viola Waterhouse (ed.), Sistemas fonológicos de idiomas Colombianos 3. Bogotá: Ministerio de Goberno and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 83-93.
Notes
Voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ occurs only in onomatopoeic expressions and loan words (87).