Tariana language
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| Tariana | ||
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| Spoken in: | Brazil | |
| Total speakers: | 100 | |
| Language family: | Arawakan Maipurean Northern Maipuran Eastern Nawiki Tariana |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | tae | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Tariana (also Tariano) is an endangered Maipurean language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately 100 people.
Speakers of Tariana are switching to the unrelated Tucano language (of the Tucanoan family).
Research on Tariana, including a grammar book and a Tariana-Portuguese dictionary have been written by Alexandra Aikhenvald from the La Trobe University, who is a specialist on the Arawak language family.
[edit] External links
- Telling the Truth in Tariana - ABC radio documentary transcript
- Tariana at La Trobe University - dictionary and other documents are available for download
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