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Ecuadorian Siona
Bai Coca
Native to	Ecuador
Region	Province of Sucumbíos
Ethnicity	Siona people (Bai)
Native speakers	250
Language family	Tucanoan Western Napo Siona–Secoya Ecuadorian Siona
Language codes
ISO 639-3	snn
Glottolog	seco1241
ELP	Baicoca-Siecoca (shared)

Ecuadorian Siona (also Bai Coca) is a Western Tucanoan language spoken by the Siona people of Ecuador.

Ecuadorian Siona is closely related to Secoya, and Colombian Siona (see Siona language), a language cluster spoken near the borders of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru (Bruil, 2014, p. 7). The variety spoken in Ecuador differs from the one spoken in Colombia with respect to their lexicon, morphology, and phonology (p. 11). Ecuadorian Siona is actually closer to Secoya, and the two are often considered to be dialects of the same language (p. 11). Bruil (2014, p. 11) views the three varieties as being a part of the same dialectal continuum, with Ecuadorian Siona in the middle.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Dorsal		Glottal
					Plain	Labial
Stop	Plain	p	t		k	kʷ
	Laryngealized	p̰	t̰		k̰	k̰w	ʔ
Affricate			t∫
Fricative	Plain		s
	Laryngealized		s̰				h
Nasal		m	n
Approximant		(w)		(j)

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Low		a ã