Koreguaje language
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| Koreguaje | |
|---|---|
| Korebaju | |
| Ko'reuaju | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Caquetá Department |
| Ethnicity | Koreguaje |
Native speakers | 2,100 (2008)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | coe |
| Glottolog | kore1283 |
| ELP | Coreguaje |
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 Koreguaje is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010). | |
Koreguaje, Korebaju, or Korebajʉ (Korewaje, Ko'reuaju) is a Tucanoan language of Colombia.
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Koreguaje has 6 vowels. All vowels have nasalized forms:
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Open | a ã |
Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
| Plosive | tenuis | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʰʷ | kʰ | kʰʷ | |||||
| Affricate | voiced | dʒ | dʒʷ | |||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | ɲ̥ | |||||||
| voiced | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | sʷ | h | ||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | w̥ | ||||||||
| voiced | w | |||||||||
| Flap | voiced | ɾ | ɾʷ | |||||||
- /ɾ/ may be retrofex [ɽ] in initial position.
- /w/ varies freely between [w] and a fricative [β] in all positions.
- Before /i/, /w̥/ varies freely between fricatives [ɸ] and [f].[2]
In popular culture
[edit]The language was spoken in the film Out of the Dark.
References
[edit]- ^ Koreguaje at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Cook, Dorothy M.; Criswell, Linda L. (1993). El idioma koreguaje (Tucano Occidental) (PDF). Bogotá: Santafé de Bogotá: Asociación Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
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