Guayabero language

Guayabero is a Guahiban language that is spoken by a thousand people in Colombia. Many of its speakers are monoglots, with few fluent Spanish speakers in the population.

Guayabero
Jiw
Native to	Colombia
Region	Upper Guaviaré River
Ethnicity	1,120 (2011)[1]
Native speakers	1,000 (2008)[1]
Language family	Guajiboan Southwest Guayabero
Language codes
ISO 639-3	guo
Glottolog	guay1257
ELP	Guayabero

Phonology

The Guayabero syllable structure can be represented as CV(V)(C)(C). Each syllable has an obligatory single consonant onset and a nucleus of one or two vowels. An optional coda of at most two consonants can occur in both word-medial and final positions.^[2]

Consonants ^[3]

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	voiceless	p	t			k
	voiced	b	d
Affricate				t͡ʃ
Fricative		ɸ	s			x	h
Nasal		m	n
Approximant			l		j	w
Flap			ɾ

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Low		a