Cofán

WALS coordinates: 0° 10′ N, 77° 10′ W

spoken in Ecuador, Colombia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cofan
Routledge:
  • Kofán
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately large
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately high
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants No laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5
    Green and Blue Green/blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow