Wayúu
Other names
Guajiro
Language code
guc
Location
12°00'00"N 72°00'00"W
Family
Arawak
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Stop/affricate | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ | |
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | ɺ |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Captain, David M. and Laura B. Captain. 2005. Diccionario Básico Ilustrado (Wayuunaiki-Español; Español-Wayuunaiki). Bogotá, D.C.: Editorial Fundación para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Marginados.
Jusayú, Miguel Angel. 1977. Diccionario de la Lengua Guajira (Guajira-Castellano). Caracas: Universidad Catolica Andres Bello Centro De Lenguas Indigenas.
Álvarez, José. 2015. Manual de la lengua wayuu. Maracaibo: Universidad del Zulia, MS.
Notes
Álvarez notes that /ɲ/ may possibly be an allophone of /n/ rather than a separate phoneme.