Yucuna

WALS coordinates: 0° 45′ S, 71° W

spoken in Colombia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yucuna
Routledge:
  • Yukuna
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 Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone No tones
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Word Order
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    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