Tatuyo is a tonal
Tucanoan language
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, ...
of
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
.
Lexically, its closest relative is
Carapano: the two languages' lexicons are 96.3% cognates.
Phonology
Tatuyo has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.
References
Languages of Colombia
Tucanoan languages
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