Tucano language

Tucano
Dahseyé
Native to Brazil, Colombia
Ethnicity Tucano people
Native speakers
4,600 in Brazil (2006)[1]
1,500–2,000 in Colombia (no date)[2]
including Pisamira?
Tucanoan
  • Eastern

    • North
      • Tucano
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
tuo  Tucano
arj  Arapaso
Glottolog tuca1252  (Tucano)[3]
arap1275  (Arapaso)[4]

Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana, endonym Dahseyé (Dasea), is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.

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

See also

Tucano language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

References

  1. Tucano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Arapaso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Tucano at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tucano". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Arapaso". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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