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Pacific languages

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Milewski’s typology

  • In South American Indian languages: Phonological characteristics

    …languages would be typical; (2) Pacific, with complex systems of oral consonants (many contrasting points and modes of articulation) but with few nasal consonants and few vowels, as exemplified by Quechumaran; and (3) Central, with consonant systems more like the Pacific type and vowel systems like the Atlantic, of which…

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