tsafiki, language, tsafiki, also, known, tsachila, colorado, barbacoan, language, spoken, ecuador, 2000, ethnic, tsáchila, people, tsafikicoloradoregionecuadorethnicitytsáchilanative, speakers2, 2000, language, familybarbacoan, southern, tsafikilanguage, codes. Tsafiki also known as Tsachila or Colorado is a Barbacoan language spoken in Ecuador by c 2000 ethnic Tsachila people TsafikiColoradoRegionEcuadorEthnicityTsachilaNative speakers2 300 2000 1 Language familyBarbacoan Southern TsafikiLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code cof class extiw title iso639 3 cof cof a Glottologcolo1256ELPTsafiki Contents 1 Phonology 1 1 Consonants 1 2 Vowels 2 References 3 External linksPhonology editConsonants edit Bilabial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar GlottalStop voiceless p t k ʔvoiced b dAffricate t sFricative ɸ s hNasal m nLateral lFlap ɹ ɾSemivowel 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 t s is heard as t ʃ when preceding high vowels but many speakers pronounce it as t ʃ in all environments Vowels edit Tsafiki has five vowels Four vowels have nasalized forms Front Central BackHigh i uMid e oLow aFront Central BackHigh ĩ ũMid ẽLow aUnaccented vowels before voiceless stops are often devoiced ḁ 2 References edit Tsafiki at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required Dickinson Connie 2002 Complex Predicates in Tsafiki Ann Arbor UMI External links editColorado Intercontinental Dictionary Series nbsp This article related to the Indigenous languages of the Americas is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tsafiki language amp oldid 1064034366, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
