Tsafiki | |
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Colorado | |
Native to | Ecuador |
Ethnicity | Tsáchila |
Native speakers | 2,300 (2000)[1] |
Barbacoan
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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
Consonants
Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | |||||
Affricate | t͡s | ||||||
Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Lateral | l | ||||||
Flap | ɹ ~ ɾ | ||||||
Semivowel | j | w |
- /b, d/ are preglottalized [ˀb, ˀd] when occurring intervocalically.
- /k/ can become voiced [ɡ] when intervocally after nasal sounds.
- /ɹ/ is heard as [ɾ] when occurring word-initially, and when following a nasalized vowel, an allophone [n] occurs.
- /s/ is heard as [ʃ] when preceding high vowels /i, u/ and after unaccented high vowels.
- /t͡s/ is heard as [t͡ʃ] when preceding high vowels, but many speakers pronounce it as [t͡ʃ] in all environments.
Vowels
Tsafiki has five vowels Four vowels have nasalized forms.
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
High | ĩ | ũ | |
Mid | ẽ | ||
Low | ã |
- Unaccented vowels before voiceless stops are often devoiced [ḁ].[2]
References
- ^ Tsafiki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Dickinson, Connie (2002). Complex Predicates in Tsafiki. Ann Arbor: UMI.
External links