Tucano language

Tucano
Tucano
yeʼpâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé
Native to	Brazil, Colombia
Ethnicity	Tucano people
Native speakers	4,600 in Brazil (2006); 7,020 in Colombia (2012), including Pisamira
Language family	Tucanoan Eastern North Tucano; ; ;
Official status
Official language in	Brazil ( Amazonas, São Gabriel da Cachoeira)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tuo
Glottolog	tuca1252
ELP	Tukano

Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana, endonym yeʼpâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé, is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.

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

Phonology

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		(m)	(n)		(ŋ)
Fricative			s			h
Approx./Tap		w	ɾ	j

Ramirez, Henri (2019). "uúku͂sehe (ye'pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé)" (PDF). A Fala Tukano dos Ye’pâ-Masa, Tomo II: Dicionário (in Portuguese) (versão atualizada ed.). Manaus: Inspetoria Salesiana Missionária da Amazônia.
West, Birdie; Welch, Betty (1967). "Phonemic system of Tucano". In Waterhouse, Viola G. (ed.). Phonemic systems of Colombian languages. Norman: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma. pp. 11–24.
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (1996). "Areal diffusion in northwest Amazonia: The case of Tariana". Anthropological Linguistics. 38 (1): 73–116.

Tucanoan Languages Collection Archived 2016-07-01 at the Wayback Machine of Janet Chernela, housed at AILLA, containing audio recordings, transcriptions, translations and field notes from the 1970s and 1980s.