Páez

Código de lengua

pbb

Localización

2°24'18"N 76°36'29"W

Familia

Isolate

Consonantes	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Oclusiva/africada aspirada	pʰ	tʰ tʲʰ tsʰ tsʲʰ		kʰ
Oclusiva/africada sorda	p pʲ	t tʲ ts tsʲ		k kʲ
Oclusiva prenasalizada	mp mpʲ mɸʲ	nt ntʲ ns nsʲ		ŋk
Fricativa	ɸʲ	s sʲ		x xʲ
Nasal	m	nʰ n nʲ
Aproximante			j	w
Lateral		l lʲ

Vocales	Anterior	Central	Posterior
Cerrada	i ĩ ḭ ḭ̃ iː ĩː		u ũ ṵ ṵ̃ uː ũː
Intermedia	e ẽ ḛ ḛ̃ eː ẽː
Abierta		a ã a̰ ã̰ aː ãː

Suprasegmental

Ninguno

Bibliografía

Rojas Curieux, Tulio Enrique. 1998. La lengua páez: una visión de su gramática. Colombia: Ministerio de Cultura.

Jung, Ingrid. 2008. Gramática del páez o nasa yuwe: Descripción de una lengua indígena de Colombia. München: LINCOM Europe.

Notas

Jung (2008: 37) analyzes vowel length as phonemic, commenting that it may not be phonemic in all dialects. Rojas Curieux (1998: 78-79) notes a few instances of long vowels but does not analyze vowel length as phonemic. The aspirated vowels of Rojas Curieux (1998) correspond in at least a few words to a vowel followed by the fricative /x/ in Jung (2008). Aspirated vowels are therefore not included in the phoneme inventory here.