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.

Phonology

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

The language

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Notes and references

Notes

Bibliography

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

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:
  • Documentation of Yucuna (source: Endangered Languages Archive).

На других языках

[es] Idioma yucuna

[fr] Yucuna (langue)

[ru] Юкуна (язык)