Tucano language
Tucanoan language spoken in Brazil and Colombia
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::summary Tucanoan language spoken in Brazil and Colombia ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Tucano |
| nativename | ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé |
| states | Brazil, Colombia |
| ethnicity | Tucano people |
| speakers | 4,600 in Brazil |
| date | 2006 |
| ref | e25 |
| speakers2 | 7,020 in Colombia (2012), including Pisamira |
| familycolor | American |
| fam1 | Tucanoan |
| fam2 | Eastern |
| fam3 | North |
| nation | Brazil (São Gabriel da Cachoeira) |
| iso3 | tuo |
| ld1 | Tucano |
| glotto | tuca1252 |
| glottorefrname | Tucano |
| map | Tucano.png |
| :: |
| name = Tucano | nativename = ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé | states = Brazil, Colombia | ethnicity = Tucano people | speakers = 4,600 in Brazil | date = 2006 | ref = e25 | speakers2 = 7,020 in Colombia (2012), including Pisamira | familycolor = American | fam1 = Tucanoan | fam2 = Eastern | fam3 = North | nation = Brazil (São Gabriel da Cachoeira) | iso3 = tuo | ld1 = Tucano | glotto = tuca1252 | glottorefrname = Tucano | map = Tucano.png
Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana, endonym ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé, is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.
Many Tariana people, speakers of the endangered Tariana language are switching to Tucano.
Phonology
Consonants
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| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Plosive | plain | voiced | Nasal | Fricative | Trill | Approximant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| () | () | () | |||||||||
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Nasal sounds [m n ŋ] are variants of voiced stops /b d ɡ/ between nasal vowels. Stops may also be heard as prenasalized [ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ] after nasal vowels. /w/ can be heard as a nasal bilabial semivowel in the environment of nasal vowels. Allophones of /ɾ/ can be heard as , .
Vowels
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| Front | Central | Back | High | Mid | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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References
Spanish
Bibliography
- A Fala Tukano dos Ye'pâ-Masa: Tomo I: Gramática . Henri Ramirez (1997) · Manaus: Inspetoria Salesiana Missionária da Amazônia, CEDEM.
- Welch, Betty and West, Birdie (2000). In Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva edited by González de Pérez, María Stella and Rodríguez de Montes, María Luisa. Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
- Bibliografía de la familia lingüística Tukano (antes Betoya) ( pp. 79-104 ). Marcelino de Castellvi (1939). In Proceedings of the second convention of the Inter American Bibliographical and Library Association 2:2 Washington, D.C.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. .
- Proto Tucanoan ( pp. 119-149 ). Nathan E. Waltz and Alva Wheeler (1972). In Comparative Studies in Amerindian Languages Mouton de Gruyter.
References
- (2019). "uúku͂sehe (ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé)". Inspetoria Salesiana Missionária da Amazônia.
- West, Birdie. (1967). "Phonemic system of Tucano". Norman: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma.
- Aikhenvald, 1996.
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