Tucanoan languages
| Tukánoan | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: | Amazon |
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | tuca1253[1] |
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East Tukano (nuclear green), Central Tukano (turquoise green) and West Tukano (dark green). Spots indicates actual locations of different tukano languages, shadowed area intended extension before 20th century. | |
Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
Family division
There are two dozen Tucanoan languages:
- Western Tucanoan[2]
- Central Tucanoan
- Cubeo (AKA Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubewa)
- Tanimuca (AKA Retuarã)
- Eastern Tucanoan
- ?Miriti (†)
- ?Cueretú (AKA Kueretú) (†)
- ?Yauna (AKA Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna) (†)
Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tukanoan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Thiago Chacon (2012)
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.
External links
- Proel: Familia Tucanoana