Language name: |
ANDOKE |
UPSID number: |
6851 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
South American, Macro-Carib |
This language has |
26 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.305048610 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
tD
k
?
b
dD
tS
dZ
P
h
rD
i
i_
u
"e
"@
"o
3
a+
a_)
i~
"e~
"@~
"o~
a+~
a_~
|
Comment: |
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. |
Source(s): |
Landaburu, J. 1979. La Langue des Andoke (Amazonie colombienne) Grammaire. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. |