Tucano language
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| Tucano | ||
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| Spoken in: | Brazil, Colombia | |
| Total speakers: | 4,632 | |
| Language family: | Tucanoan Eastern Tucano |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | tuo | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Tucano (also Tukana, Tucana, Tukano, Dasea, Jurutí, Jurití, Yurutí, Tariana, Tariano, Koneá, Koreá, Patsoka, Wahyara; autonym: Dahseyé) is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.
Many speakers of the endangered Tariana language are switching to Tucano.
[edit] Bibliography
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
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