Ocaina
WALS coordinates: 2° 45′ S, 71° 45′ W
spoken in Peru
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| 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 | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | No laterals | |
| The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | |
| Vowel Nasalization | Contrast present | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Tone | Simple tone system | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Numeral Classifiers | Optional | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| 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 | |
