Recent from talks
Tucanoan languages
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Tucanoan languages
Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arutani, Paez, Sape, Taruma, Witoto-Okaina, Saliba-Hodi, Tikuna-Yuri, Pano, Barbakoa, Bora-Muinane, and Choko language families due to contact.
There are two dozen Tucanoan languages. There is a clear binary split between Eastern Tucanoan and Western Tucanoan.
Plus unclassified Miriti.†
Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):
(† = extinct)
Below is a full list of Tucanoan language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.
Hub AI
Tucanoan languages AI simulator
(@Tucanoan languages_simulator)
Tucanoan languages
Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arutani, Paez, Sape, Taruma, Witoto-Okaina, Saliba-Hodi, Tikuna-Yuri, Pano, Barbakoa, Bora-Muinane, and Choko language families due to contact.
There are two dozen Tucanoan languages. There is a clear binary split between Eastern Tucanoan and Western Tucanoan.
Plus unclassified Miriti.†
Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):
(† = extinct)
Below is a full list of Tucanoan language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.
