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p           t               k      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Affricates
            ts     ʈʂ              
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
  m           n           ɲ        
 
 
 
 
 
 
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              ɾ                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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            s   ʃ   ʂ                          
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
  β̞                       j                    
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      l           ʎ        
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Guambiano
UPSID number: 6862
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: South American, Paezan
The languages has 24 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Guambiano is spoken around Silvia, department of
Cauca, Colombia. Caudmont (1954) treats affricates as stop
+ fricative sequences but no other syllable-initial
clusters occur; however, affricates do not occur
syllable-finally as all other consonants except /kw/ do.

Sources:

Branks, T. and Branks, J. 1973. Fonologia del Guambiano.
Sistemas Fonologicos de Idiomas Colombianos, II. (SIL,
Loma Linda, Colombia).

Caudmont, J. 1954. Fonologia del Guambiano. Revista
Colombiana de Antropologia 5: 189-206.