Sáliba (in Colombia)
WALS coordinates: 6° N, 70° W
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | |
| 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 | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Simple | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | |
| Coding of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
