Yucuna language
| Yucuna | |
|---|---|
| Jukuna | |
| Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2001)[1] |
Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ycn |
qqj (Guarú) | |
| Glottolog | yucu1253 Yucunaguar1294 Guaru |
| ELP | Yucuna |
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Yucuna (Jukuna), also known as Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi, and Yukunais,[1] is an Arawakan language spoken in several communities along the Mirití-Paraná River in Colombia.[2] Extinct Guarú (Garú) was either a dialect or a closely related language.
Phonology
The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 22 consonants and 16 vowels.[3]
The language
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Notes and references
Notes
- ^ a b Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 1.
- ^ Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 6-7.
Bibliography
- Lemus Serrano, Magdalena (2020). Pervasive nominalization in Yukuna, an Arawak language of Colombian Amazonia (PDF). PhD dissertation, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
External links
- Resources by ethnographer Laurent Fontaine:
- Audio recordings in the Yucuna language, in open access (source: Pangloss Collection of CNRS).
- The Yucuna Indians
- Corpus of myths and tales (in Yucuna and French)
- Ethnographic films of the Yucuna Indians with texts of dialogues
- Resources by linguist Magdalena Lemus Serrano: