Yucuna language

Yucuna (Jukuna), also known as Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi, and Yukunais,[1] is an Arawakan language spoken in several communities along the Mirití-Paraná River in Colombia.[2] Extinct Guarú (Garú) was either a dialect or a closely related language.

Yucuna
Jukuna
Native toColombia
Native speakers
1,800 (2001)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3ycn
qqj (Guarú)
Glottologyucu1253  Yucuna
guar1294  Guaru
ELPYucuna

Phonology

The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 22 consonants and 16 vowels.[3]

The language

Notes and references

Notes

  1. Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 1.
  3. Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 6-7.

Bibliography

  • Lemus Serrano, Magdalena (2020). Pervasive nominalization in Yukuna, an Arawak language of Colombian Amazonia (PDF). PhD dissertation, Université Lumière Lyon 2.


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