The Pemon language is an Indigenous language of the Cariban family spoken by some 30,000 Pemon people, in Venezuela's Southeast, particularly in the Canaima National Park, in the Roraima State of Brazil and in Guyana.
Typology
The Pemon language's syntax type is SOV with alternation to OVS. == Writing ==
Writing
Pemon was an oral language until the 20th century. Then efforts were made to produce dictionaries and grammars, primarily by Catholic missionaries, specially Armellada and Gutiérrez Salazar. The Latin alphabet has been used, adding diacritic signs to represent some phonemes not existing in Spanish. == Phonology ==
Phonology
Vowels Arekuna Pemon has the following vowels: There are still texts only using Spanish characters, without distinguishing between pairs such as and . Diphthong sounds are . Consonants Allophones of are . == Grammar ==