Major General James G. Blunt

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.

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
Stop	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

References

^ ^a ^b Guayabero at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Keels J (1985). "Guayabero: Phonology and morphophonemics" (PDF). Language Data. Amerindian Series. 9: 57–87. ISBN 0-88312-091-7.
^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.

[e18-1] Guayabero at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Keels J (1985). "Guayabero: Phonology and morphophonemics" (PDF). Language Data. Amerindian Series. 9: 57–87. ISBN 0-88312-091-7.

[3] "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.

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