Tucanoan languages
Encyclopedia
Tucanoan is a language family
of Colombia
, Brazil
, Ecuador
, and Peru
.
Macaguaje, Yupuá-Durina, and Cueretú are now extinct
.
Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...
of Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
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, and Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
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Family division
There are two dozen Tucanoan languages:- Western Tucanoan
- Correguaje ( Coreguaje, Caquetá, Korewahe, Koreguaje)
- TamaTama language (Colombia)Tama is an extinct indigenous Tucanoan language of Colombia. It was spoken in the regions of Vicente, Orteguaza River and Caquetá Region....
(†) - Macaguaje ( Kakawahe, Piohé) (†)
- SionaSiona languageThe Siona language is a Tukanoan language of Columbia and Ecuador.- Phonology :Vowels...
(Siona, Sioni, Pioje, Pioche-Sioni) - SecoyaSecoya languageThe Secoya language is a Western Tucanoan language spoken by 297 Secoya people in Ecuador and 144 in Peru....
(Piohé, Secoya, Siona-Secoya) - TetetéTeteté languageTeteté is an extinct Tucanoan language that was spoken in Ecuador close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. It was also formerly spoken in Colombia, but is now extinct there. It was spoken by the indigenous Tetete people, who did not survive the twentieth century....
( Tetete, Eteteguaje) (†) - Orejón ( Coto, Payoguaje, Payaguá, Koto, Payowahe, Payawá)
- Yauna ( Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna) (†)
- CubeoCubeo languageThe Cubeo language is a SOV language spoken by the Cubeo people and is a member of the central branch of the Tukano language. It has many lexical loans from the Nadahup languages and has a grammar which was apparently influenced by Arawak...
( Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubewa) - Miriti
- Eastern Tucanoan
- MacunaMacunaThe Macuna are a Tucanoan-speaking group of the eastern part of the Amazon basin, located around the confluence of the Pirá-Paraná and Apaporis rivers, in the Colombian Vaupés Department and the Brazilian state of Amazonas. There are no reliable census data for the Macuna...
( Buhagana, Wahana, Makuna-Erulia, Makuna) - BarasanaBarasana languageThe Barasana language is an aboriginal amerindian language spoken by a few thousand people in Northern South America. The people, the Barasana and Eduria, are ethnically distinct and consider their dialects to be distinct languages...
–Eduria ( Paneroa, Edulia, Comematsa, Janera, Taibano, Taiwaeno, Taiwano) - Yupuá–Durina (†)
- Cueretú ( Kueretú) (†)
- Desano–SirianoSirianoSiriano are a Tucanoan people indigenous to Colombia and Brazil. Their total population is estimated at 347 with most living in Colombia. Their culturally exogamous system means that glossologically, speakers are identified by the first language of their father.-Print References:*Ibáñez Fonseca,...
( Desano) - BaráBâraBâra is a commune in Neamţ County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bâra, Negreşti and Rediu.-References:...
–Tuyuka ( Pocanga, Pakang, Tejuca, Teyuka, Tuyuca, Bara) - Carapano ( Carapana, Karapana)
- TucanoTucano languageTucano is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.Many speakers of the endangered Tariana language are switching to Tucano.-Bibliography:* Campbell,...
( Tukana, Dasea) - GuananoGuanano languageGuanano is a Tucanoan language spoken in the northwest part of Amazonas in Brazil and in Vaupés in Colombia.-Classification:...
( Wanana, Kotedia, Wanana-Pirá) - Piratapuyo ( Waikina, Uiquina)
- Macuna
Macaguaje, Yupuá-Durina, and Cueretú are now extinct
Extinct language
An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers., or that is no longer in current use. Extinct languages are sometimes contrasted with dead languages, which are still known and used in special contexts in written form, but not as ordinary spoken languages for everyday communication...
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Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
External links
- Ethnologue: Tucanoan
- Proel: Familia Tucanoana