Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana,

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''Dahseyé'' (Dasea), is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and

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. Many Tariana people, speakers of the endangered Tariana language are switching to Tucano.

Phonology

Consonants

Nasal sounds n ŋare variants of voiced stops /b d ɡ/ between nasal vowels. Stops may also be heard as prenasalized ��b ⁿd ᵑɡafter nasal vowels. /w/ can be heard as nasal bilabial semivowel �̞̃when in the environment of nasal vowels. Allophones of /ɾ/ can be heard as �̃ �Aikhenvald, 1996.

Vowels

References

Spanish

Tukanos

Bibliography

*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. . *Proto Tucanoan ( pp. 119-149 ). Nathan E. Waltz and Alva Wheeler (1972). In Comparative Studies in Amerindian Languages Mouton de Gruyter.

External links

of Janet Chernela, housed at

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, containing audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes from the 1970s and 1980s. {{Languages of Brazil Tucanoan languages Languages of Brazil Languages of Colombia