Yucuna language
| Yucuna | |
|---|---|
| Jukuna | |
| Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2001)[1] |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ycn |
qqj (Guarú) | |
| Glottolog | yucu1253 Yucunaguar1294 Guaru |
| ELP | Yucuna |
Yucuna (Jukuna), also known as Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi, and Yukunais,[1] is an Arawakan language of Colombia.
Extinct Guarú (Garú) was either a dialect or a closely related language.
The language[]
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Notes and references[]
Notes[]
- ^ a b Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Bibliography[]
- Lemus Serrano, Magdalena. 2020. Pervasive nominalization in Yukuna, an Arawak language of Colombian Amazonia. PhD dissertation. Université Lumière Lyon 2. 1089 pp. (online presentation; read online)
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:
Categories:
- Languages with Linglist code
- Languages of Colombia
- Arawakan languages
- Arawakan language stubs