Tucano language

Tucano
Dahseyé
Native to Brazil, Colombia
Ethnicity Tucano people
Native speakers
4,600 in Brazil  (2006)[1]
2,000 in Colombia (no date)[2]
Tucanoan
  • Eastern

    • North
      • Tucano
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
tuo  Tucano
arj  Arapaso
Glottolog tuca1252  (Tucano)[3]
arap1275  (Arapaso)[4]
pisa1245  (Pisamira)[5]

Tucano (also Tukana, Tucana, Tukano, Dasea, Tariana, Tariano, Koneá, Koreá, Patsoka, Wahyara, Yuruti; autonym: Dahseyé) is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.

Many speakers of the endangered Tariana language are switching to Tucano.

See also

Tucano language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

References

  1. Tucano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Arapaso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Tucano at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tucano". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Arapaso". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  5. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pisamira". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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