Guambiano

WALS coordinates: 2° 30′ N, 76° 40′ W

spoken in Colombia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Guambiano
Routledge:
  • Wambiano-Mogés
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5.5
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5
    Green and Blue Green/blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow