Koreguaje language
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Koreguaje, Korebaju, or Korebajʉ (Korewaje, Ko'reuaju) is a Tucanoan language of Colombia.
Phonology
Vowels
Koreguaje has 6 vowels. All vowels have nasalized forms:
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
| Plosive | tenuis | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʰʷ | kʰ | kʰʷ | |||||
| Affricate | voiced | dʒ | dʒʷ | |||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | ɲ̥ | |||||||
| voiced | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | sʷ | h | ||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | w̥ | ||||||||
| voiced | w | |||||||||
| Flap | voiced | ɾ | ɾʷ |
- /ɾ/ may be retrofex [ɽ] in initial position.
- /w/ varies freely between [w] and a fricative [β] in all positions.
- Before /i/, /w̥/ varies freely between fricatives [ɸ] and [f].
In popular culture
The language was spoken in the film Out of the Dark.