Taranoan languages
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Taranoan | |
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Geographic distribution | Brazil, Suriname, Colombia |
Linguistic classification | Cariban
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Glottolog | tara1324 |
The Taranoan languages are a subgroup of the Cariban language family. The languages are spoken in Brazil, Suriname, and Colombia.[1]
Languages[]
The Taranoan languages according to Sérgio Meira (2006) are:[2]: 169
Meira (2006) considers Tiriyó and Akuriyó to be closer to each other than they are to Karihona.[2]
With approximately 2,000 speakers, Tiriyó is the only language that is not close to extinction. Akuriyó and Karihona each have only a few elderly speakers left.
References[]
Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Taranoan reconstructions |
- ^ Meira, Sérgio. 1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology. M.A. dissertation. Rice University.
- ^ a b Meira, Sérgio. 2006. A família lingüística Caribe (Karíb). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas v.3, n.1/2, p.157-174. Brasília: FUNAI. (PDF)
Categories:
- Cariban languages
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs