Tucanoan languages
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Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
[edit] Family division
Tucanoan consists of 15 languages:
I. Western Tucanoan
- 1. Correguaje (a.k.a. Coreguaje, Caquetá, Korewahe, Koreguaje)
- 2. Macaguaje (a.k.a. Kakawahe, Piohé, Secoya, Siona-Secoya) (†)
- 3. Teteté (a.k.a. Tetete, Eteteguaje)
- 4. Orejón (a.k.a. Coto, Payoguaje, Payaguá, Koto, Payowahe, Payawá)
- 5. Yauna (a.k.a. Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna)
II. Central Tucanoan
- 6. Cubeo (a.k.a. Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubewa)
III. Eastern Tucanoan
- 7. Macuna (a.k.a. Buhagana, Wahana, Makuna-Erulia, Makuna)
- 8. Yupuá-Durina (†)
- 9. Cueretú (a.k.a. Kueretú) (†)
- 10. Desano-Siriano (a.k.a. Desano)
- 11. Bará-Tuyuka (a.k.a. Pocanga, Pakang, Tejuca, Teyuka, Tuyuca, Bara)
- 12. Carapano (a.k.a. Carapana, Karapana)
- 13. Tucano (a.k.a. Tukana, Dasea)
- 14. Guanano (a.k.a. Wanana, Kotedia, Wanana-Pirá)
- 15. Piratapuyo (a.k.a. Waikina, Uiquina)
Macaguaje, Yupuá-Durina, and Cueretú are now extinct.
Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue: Tucanoan
- Proel: Familia Tucanoana
[edit] 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.
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