Koreguaje language

Korebaju, Coreguaje (Korewaje, Ko'reuaju) is a Tucanoan language of Colombia.

Korebaju, Coreguaje
Ko'reuaju
Native to	Colombia
Native speakers	2,100 (2008)[1]
Language family	Tucanoan Korebaju, Coreguaje
Language codes
ISO 639-3	coe
Glottolog	kore1283
ELP	Coreguaje

The language was spoken in the film Out of the Dark.

Phonology

Vowels

Koreguaje has 6 vowels. All vowels have nasalized forms:

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

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Postalveolar		Palatal	Velar		Glottal
			plain	lab.	plain	lab.		plain	lab.
Plosive	plain	p	t					k	kʷ	ʔ
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	tʰʷ				kʰ	kʰʷ
Affricate					dʒ	dʒʷ
Nasal	voiceless	m̥					ɲ̥
	voiced	m	n				ɲ
Fricative	voiceless	ʍ	s	sʷ						h
	voiced	w
Flap			ɾ	ɾʷ

• /ɾ/ can be heard as retrofex [ɽ] in initial positions.
• /w/ can fluctuate to a voiced fricative [β] in free variation.
• /ʍ/ can be he heard as [ɸ] or [f] when preceding /i/.^[2]

References

1. Korebaju, Coreguaje at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Cook, Dorothy M.; Criswell, Linda L. (1993). El idioma koreguaje (Tucano Occidental). Bogotá: Santafé de Bogotá: Asociación Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.