Tucanoan languages

Tukánoan
Geographic
distribution:
Amazon
Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: tuca1253[1]

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East Tukano (nuclear green), Central Tukano (turquoise green) and West Tukano (dark green). Spots indicates actual locations of the different languages. The shadowed area intendes extension before the 20th century.

Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

Classification

There are are two dozen Tucanoan languages:

Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tukanoan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Thiago Chacon (2012)

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