Tatuyo is a tonal Tucanoan language of Colombia.[2] Lexically, its closest relative is Carapano: the two languages' lexicons are 96.3% cognates.[3]
Tatuyo | |
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Wa’ikhana | |
Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 330 (2012)[1] |
Tucanoan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tav |
Glottolog | tatu1247 |
ELP | Tatuyo |
Phonology
editTatuyo has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.[2]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
voiced | b | d | g | |||
Approximant | j | w | h | |||
Flap | ɾ |
References
edit- ^ Tatuyo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
- ^ Matteson, Esther; Wheeler, Alva; Jackson, Frances L.; Waltz, Nathan E.; Christian, Diana R. (14 May 2014). Comparative Studies in Amerindian Languages. De Gruyter.