Wajiara language
Yurutí, or Wajiara, is a Tucanoan language of Colombia, with around 1,200 speakers in Colombia and Brazil.
| Yurutí | |
|---|---|
| Wajiara | |
| Native to | Colombia, Brazil |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2011)[1] |
Tucanoan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yui |
| Glottolog | yuru1263[2] |
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Guttural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | (ɨ) | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
References
- Yurutí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yuruti". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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