Tsafiki language
| Tsafikí | |
|---|---|
| Colorado | |
| Region | Ecuador |
| Ethnicity | Tsáchila |
Native speakers | 2,300 (2000)[1] |
Barbacoan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cof |
| Glottolog | colo1256 |
| ELP | Tsafiki |
Tsafiki, also known as Tsachila or Colorado, is a Barbacoan language spoken in Ecuador by c. 2000 ethnic Tsáchila people.
Phonology
Tsafiki has 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/. All vowels have nasalized forms.[2]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ||||
| Affricate | t͡s | |||||
| Fricative | β | s | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
References
- ^ Tsafikí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
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