Tucanoan languages

Tukánoan
Geographic
distribution:
Amazon
Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: tuca1253[1]

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East Tukano (nuclear green), Central Tukano (turquoise green) and West Tukano (dark green). Spots indicates actual locations of different tukano languages, shadowed area intended extension before 20th century.

Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

Family division

There are two dozen Tucanoan languages:

Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tukanoan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Thiago Chacon (2012)

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