Koreguaje language
| Korebaju, Coreguaje | |
|---|---|
| Ko'reuaju | |
| Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 2,100 (2008)[1] |
Tucanoan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | coe |
| Glottolog | kore1283 |
| ELP | Coreguaje |
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Korebaju, Korebajʉ, Coreguaje (Korewaje, Ko'reuaju) is a Tucanoan language of Colombia.
The language was spoken in the film Out of the Dark.
Phonology
Vowels
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
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
| Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʰʷ | kʰ | kʰʷ | |||||
| Affricate | dʒ | dʒʷ | ||||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | ɲ̥ | |||||||
| voiced | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ʍ | s | sʷ | h | |||||
| voiced | w | |||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɾʷ | ||||||||
- /ɾ/ can be heard as retrofex [ɽ] in initial positions.
- /w/ can fluctuate to a voiced fricative [β] in free variation.
- /ʍ/ can be he heard as [ɸ] or [f] when preceding /i/.[2]
References
- ^ Korebaju, Coreguaje at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Cook, Dorothy M.; Criswell, Linda L. (1993). El idioma koreguaje (Tucano Occidental). Bogotá: Santafé de Bogotá: Asociación Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.