Yucuna_language

Yucuna language

Yucuna language

Arawakan language of Colombia

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 is a polysynthetic language, and it uses SVO word order.[3]

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Phonology

The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.[4]

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  1. /ŋ/ occurs as an allophone of /n/ before /k/.
  2. /k/ can be written ⟨qu⟩ before front vowels, and ⟨c⟩ otherwise.

Notes and references

Notes

  1. [1]
    Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 1.
  3. [3]
    "Yucuna Language and the Yucuna Indian Tribe (Yukuna, Jucuna, Matapi)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  4. [4]
    Schauer, Stanley; Shauer, Junia (1967). Yucuna Phonemics. The Long Now Foundation. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

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