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p b         t   d               k      
 
 
 
 
ʔ
 
Affricates
                               
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
                                   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
              r              
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
Tap, Flap
                                               
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
ɸ                                           h  
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                                               
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Selected languages: Andoke
UPSID number: 6851
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: S. American, Macro-Carib
The languages has 26 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments: Andoke is spoken in the upper Amazon basin in Colombia. Landaburu analyses it as a tone language with two level tones. Nasalized vowels occur word-initially, but elsewhere only after nasal consonants. Consequently nasals can be analyzed as allohpones of voiced stops. The sounds represented as palato-alveolar affricates here apparently vary considerably from (palatal) plosives, to (postalveolar) affricates, to [s] and [j] for voiceless and voiced cases respectively. Syllables may be closed by a glottal stop - Landaburu treats this as a feature of the vowels.
Sources: Landaburu, J. 1979. La Langue des Andoke (Amazonie colombienne) Grammaire. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.