Wajiara language explained

Yurutí
Nativename:Wajiara
States:Colombia, Brazil
Date:2011
Ref:e18
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Tucanoan
Fam2:Eastern
Fam3:Central
Fam4:Bara
Iso3:yui
Glotto:yuru1263
Glottorefname:Yuruti
Map:Yuruti.png

Yurutí, or Wajiara, is a Tucanoan language of Colombia, with around 1,200 speakers in Colombia and Brazil.

Phonology

! Bilabial! Alveolar! Palatal! Guttural
Plosive/
Affricate		pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Fricativepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Semivowelpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Flappronounced as /link/

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Vowels!! Front! Central! Back
Closepronounced as /link/(pronounced as /link/)pronounced as /link/
Midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Openpronounced as /link/