Arhuaco language
Arhuaco, commonly known as Ikʉ, () is an Indigenous American language of the Chibchan language family, spoken in South America by the Arhuaco people. There are 8000 speakers, all in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of Colombia, 90% of whom are monolingual. Literacy is 1 to 5% in their native language. Some speak Spanish, and 15 to 25% are literate in that auxiliary language. The users have a very strong traditional culture and have vibrant use of their tongue. It is also known as: "Aruaco, Bintuk, Bíntukua, Bintucua, Ica, Ijca, Ijka, Ika, and Ike." The language uses  a subject–object–verb (SOV) sentence structure. Phonology. is raised to and merged with word finally. This language registers 17 consonant phonemes: Syllable Structure. With some exceptions, Arhuaco syllables may begin with up to two consonants (the second of which must be a glide /w j/) and may be closed by one of the following consonants: /ʔ n r w j/. Prosody. Arhuaco stress normally falls on penultimate syllables, with secondary stresses occurring on every other preceding syllable, in the case of longer words (e.g. /ˌunkəˈsia/ 'protective bracelet'). There are some affixes and enclitics that are extrametrical and do not  count as syllables for stress assignment. References. Frank, Paul. 1985. A grammar of Ika. PhD thesis. University of Pennsylvania. Frank, Paul. 2000. Ika syntax. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Landaburu, Jon. 2000. La lengua Ika. in "Lenguas indigenas de Colombia: Una visión descriptiva". Bogota: Instituto Caro y Cuervo"."