Tacana is a Western
Tacanan
Tacanan is a family of languages spoken in Bolivia, with Ese’ejja also spoken in Peru. It may be related to the Panoan languages. Many of the languages are endangered.
Family division
* Ese Ejja (a.k.a. Ese’eha, Tiatinagua, Chama, Huara ...
language spoken by some 1,800
Tacana people
The Tacana People are an ethnic group who live in the Beni Department of Bolivia. There were 18,535 of them in 2012, of whom 559 speak the Tacana language natively.
Background and social organization
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in
Bolivia
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out of an ethnic population of 5,000. They live in the forest along the
Beni
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and
Madre de Dios rivers in the north of
La Paz Department. Numerous dialects, now extinct, have been attributed to Tacana: Ayaychuna, Babayana, Chiliuvo, Chivamona, Idiama (Ixiama), Pamaino, Pasaramona, Saparuna, Siliama, Tumupasa (Maracani, "Tupamasa"), Uchupiamona, Yabaypura, and Yubamona (Mason 1950).
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
External links
Tacana dictionary online from IDS(select simple or advanced browsing)
Tacana(
Intercontinental Dictionary Series
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Languages of Bolivia
Tacanan languages
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