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Selected languages: | Warao |
UPSID number: | 6852 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | S. American, Paezan |
The languages has | 21 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [b] [t] [kʷ] [k] [s] [ɺ] [β̞] [j] [m] [n] [ĩ] [ũ] [õ] [ɛ̃] [ä̃] [i] [u] [o] [ɛ] [ä] [h] |
Comments: | Warao is spoken principally along the Venezuelan |
Sources: | Osborn, H.A. 1966. Warao I: phonology and morphophonemics. |