Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana,
endonym
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''ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé'', is a
Tucanoan language spoken in
Amazonas,
Brazil
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and
Colombia
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.
Many
Tariana people, speakers of the
endangered
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Tariana language
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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 a nasal bilabial semivowel in the environment of nasal vowels. Allophones of /ɾ/ can be heard as , .
[Aikhenvald, 1996.]
Vowels
See also
*
Tucano people
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