Tucano language
| Tucano | |
|---|---|
| Dahseyé | |
| Native to | Brazil,Colombia |
| Ethnicity | Tucano people |
Native speakers | 4,600 in Brazil (2006)[1] 7,020 in Colombia (2012), includingPisamira[1] |
Tucanoan
| |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Brazil(São Gabriel da Cachoeira) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tuo– Tucanoarj– Arapaso |
| Glottolog | tuca1252Tucanoarap1275Arapaso |
| ELP | Tukano |
| Arapaso[2] | |
 | |
Tucano,alsoTukanoorTucana,endonymDahseyé(Dasea), is aTucanoanlanguage spoken inAmazonas,BrazilandColombia.
ManyTariana people,speakers of theendangeredTariana languageare switching to Tucano.
Phonology[edit]
Consonants[edit]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | (m) | (n) | (ŋ) | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Nasal sounds [m n ŋ] are variants of voiced stops /b d ɡ/ between nasal vowels. Stops may also be heard asprenasalized[ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ] after nasal vowels. /w/ can be heard as a nasal bilabial semivowel[β̞̃]in the environment of nasal vowels. Allophones of /ɾ/ can be heard as[ɾ̃],[ɺ].[3][4]
Vowels[edit]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | iĩ | ɨɨ̃ | uũ |
| Mid | eẽ | oõ | |
| Low | aã |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^abTucanoatEthnologue(25th ed., 2022)
ArapasoatEthnologue(25th ed., 2022)
- ^Endangered Languages Project data for Arapaso.
- ^West, Birdie; Welch, Betty (1967).Phonemic system of Tucano.Viola G. Waterhouse (ed.), Phonemic systems of Colombian languages: Norman: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma. pp. 11–24.
- ^Aikhenvald, 1996.
Spanish[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- A Fala Tukano dos Ye'pâ-Masa: Tomo I: Gramática. Henri Ramirez (1997) · Manaus: Inspetoria Salesiana Missionária da Amazônia, CEDEM.
- Welch, Betty and West, Birdie (2000). In Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva edited by González de Pérez, María Stella and Rodríguez de Montes, María Luisa. Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
- Bibliografía de la familia lingüística Tukano (antes Betoya) ( pp. 79-104 ). Marcelino de Castellvi (1939). In Proceedings of the second convention of the Inter American Bibliographical and Library Association 2:2 Washington, D.C.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997).American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America.New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-509427-1.
- Proto Tucanoan ( pp. 119-149 ). Nathan E. Waltz and Alva Wheeler (1972). In Comparative Studies in Amerindian Languages Mouton de Gruyter.
External links[edit]
- Tucanoan Languages Collectionof Janet Chernela, housed atAILLA,containing audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes from the 1970s and 1980s.