Tucanoan languages

Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

Family division

There are two dozen Tucanoan languages:

• Western Tucanoan
  • Correguaje (aka Coreguaje, Caquetá, Korewahe, Koreguaje)
  • Tama (†)
  • Macaguaje (aka Kakawahe, Piohé) (†)
  • Siona (Siona, Sioni, Pioje, Pioche-Sioni)
  • Secoya (Piohé, Secoya, Siona-Secoya)
  • Teteté (aka Tetete, Eteteguaje) (†)
  • Orejón (aka Coto, Payoguaje, Payaguá, Koto, Payowahe, Payawá)
  • Yauna (aka Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna) (†)
• Cubeo (aka Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubewa)
• Miriti
• Eastern Tucanoan
  • Macuna (aka Buhagana, Wahana, Makuna-Erulia, Makuna)
  • Barasana–Eduria (aka Paneroa, Edulia, Comematsa, Janera, Taibano, Taiwaeno, Taiwano)
  • Yupuá–Durina (†)
  • Cueretú (aka Kueretú) (†)
  • Desano–Siriano (aka Desano)
  • Bará–Tuyuka (aka Pocanga, Pakang, Tejuca, Teyuka, Tuyuca, Bara)
  • Carapano (aka Carapana, Karapana)
  • Tucano (aka Tukana, Dasea)
  • Guanano (aka Wanana, Kotedia, Wanana-Pirá)
  • Piratapuyo (aka Waikina, Uiquina)

Macaguaje, Yupuá-Durina, and Cueretú are now extinct.

Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.

External links

• Ethnologue: Tucanoan
• Proel: Familia Tucanoana

Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.