Yucuna language
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| Yucuna | |
|---|---|
| Jukuna | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Miritiparaná River |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2001)[1] |
Arawakan
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ycn |
qqj (Guarú) | |
| Glottolog | yucu1253 Yucunaguar1294 Guaru |
| ELP | Yucuna |
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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]
The Matapi, a Tucanoan people, lived at the headwaters of the Popeyacá and Yapiyá, tributaries to the Miriti and Apaporis rivers but most may have been sold as slaves or moved to Brazil. The remainder joined the Yucuna.[4]
Phonology
[edit]The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.[5]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ ⟨ñ⟩ | (ŋ)[a] | ||
| Plosive | unaspirated | p | t | t͡ʃ ⟨ch⟩ | k ⟨c/qu⟩[b] | ʔ ⟨'⟩ |
| aspirated | pʰ ⟨ph⟩ | tʰ ⟨th⟩ | ||||
| Fricative | s | h ⟨j⟩ | ||||
| Approximant | w ⟨hu⟩ | l | j ⟨y⟩ | |||
| Tap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ | |||||
See also
[edit]Notes and references
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 1.
- ^ "Yucuna Language and the Yucuna Indian Tribe (Yukuna, Jucuna, Matapi)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- ^ Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0.
- ^ Schauer, Stanley; Shauer, Junia (1967). Yucuna Phonemics. The Long Now Foundation. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Bibliography
[edit]- Arias, Leonardo; Emlen, Nicholas Q.; Norder, Sietze; Julmi, Nora; Lemus Serrano, Magdalena; Chacon, Thiago; Wiegertjes, Jurriaan; Howard, Austin; Azevedo, Matheus C. B. C.; Caine, Allison; Dunn, Saskia; Stoneking, Mark; Van Gijn, Rik (2022). "Interpreting mismatches between linguistic and genetic patterns among speakers of Tanimuka (Eastern Tukanoan) and Yukuna (Arawakan)" (PDF). Interface Focus. 13 (20220056). doi:10.1098/rsfs.2022.0056. PMC 9732642. PMID 36655193. S2CID 254409212.
- Lemus Serrano, Magdalena (2020). Pervasive nominalization in Yukuna, an Arawak language of Colombian Amazonia (PDF) (PhD thesis). Université Lumière Lyon 2.
External links
[edit]- 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: