Wayana
| Wayana | ||
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Spoken in |
Suriname , French Guiana , Brazil | |
| speaker | about 850 (2007) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
- |
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| ISO 639-3 |
way |
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Wayana , also Alukuyana , Oayana , Oiana , Oyana , Roucouyenne , Uaiana , Upurui or Wajana , is a Caribbean language spoken in Suriname , French Guiana and Brazil . The language has about 850 speakers.
phonetics
| Consonants | labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| stop | p | t | k | |||
| nasal | m | n | ||||
| Flap | ɽ | |||||
| Fricative | H | |||||
| Approximant | w | j |