Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana,
endonym
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''Dahseyé'' (Dasea), is a
Tucanoan
Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
Language contact
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arutani, Paez, Sape, Taruma, Witoto-Okaina, Saliba-Hodi, ...
language spoken in
Amazonas,
Brazil
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and
Colombia
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.
Many
Tariana people
The Tariana or Taliaseri are an indigenous people of the Vaupés or Uaupés River in the Amazon region of Brazil and Colombia. Starting in the 19th century missionaries tried to persuade them to abandon their traditional beliefs and practices, wi ...
, speakers of the
endangered
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Tariana language
Tariana (also Tariano) is an endangered Maipurean (also known as Arawak) language spoken along the Vaupés River in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately 100 people. Another approximately 1,500 people in the upper and middle Vaupés River area iden ...
are switching to Tucano.
Phonology
Consonants
Nasal sounds
n ŋare variants of voiced stops /b d ɡ/ between nasal vowels. Stops may also be heard as prenasalized
b ⁿd ᵑɡafter nasal vowels. /w/ can be heard as nasal bilabial semivowel
̞̃when in the environment of nasal vowels. Allophones of /ɾ/ can be heard as
̃ [Aikhenvald, 1996.]
Vowels
See also
*
Tucano people
The Tucano people (sometimes spelt Tukano) are a group of Indigenous South Americans in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area. They are mostly in Colombia, but some are in Brazil. They are us ...
References
Spanish
Tukanos
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.
External links
of Janet Chernela, housed at
AILLA, containing audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes from the 1970s and 1980s.
{{Languages of Brazil
Tucanoan languages
Languages of Brazil
Languages of Colombia