Guayabero
Language code
guo
Location
2°42'32"N 71°58'48"W
Family
Guahiban
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Plain stop/affricate | p | t | tʃ | k | ||
| Voiced stop | b | d | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | x | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
| Tap, flap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l |
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
Suprasegmental
None
Bibliography
Keels, Jack. 1985. Guayabero: Phonology and Morphophonemics. In Ruth Brend (ed.), From Phonology to Discourse: Studies in Six Colombian Languages, pp. 57-75. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Tobar, Nubia. 2000. Aspectos generales de la lengua guayabero. In María Stella González de Pérez and María Luisa Rodríguez de Montes (eds.), Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: Una visión descriptiva. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. 600-601.
Notes
Note that Keels (1985: 58) includes /ʔ/, while Tobar (2000: 600) omits this segment.