TUCANOAN LANGUAGES

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

Contents
Family division
External links
Bibliography

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.

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.

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