| Language name: | GUAMBIANO |
| UPSID number: | 6862 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | South American, Paezan |
| This language has | 24 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.436160384 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t k kW ts tS t.s s S s. m n nj r[ l lj BA j i "e a "o u "@ |
| Comment: | 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. |
| Source(s): | 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. |