Yucuna (Jukuna), also known as Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi, and Yukunais,
is an
Arawakan language
Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branc ...
spoken in several communities along the
Mirití-Paraná River
Mirití-Paraná is a town and municipality in the southern Colombian Department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (admi ...
in
Colombia. Extinct Guarú (Garú) was either a dialect or a closely related language.
Phonology
The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 22 consonants and 16 vowels.
The language
Notes and references
Notes
Bibliography
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External links
* Resources by ethnographer Laurent Fontaine:
*
Audio recordings in the Yucuna language in open access
(source: ''Pangloss Collection
The Pangloss Collection is a digital library whose objective is to store and facilitate access to audio recordings in endangered languages of the world. Developed by the LACITO centre of CNRS in Paris, the collection provides free online access to ...
'' of CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...
).
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The Yucuna Indians*
(in Yucuna and French)
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* Resources by linguist Magdalena Lemus Serrano:
*
Documentation of Yucuna(source: ''Endangered Languages Archive
The Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) is a digital archive for materials on endangered languages, based at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). The Archive preserves digital collections, including audio and video recordi ...
'').
Languages of Colombia
Arawakan languages
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