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Arawakan language of Colombia
Yucuna
(Jukuna), also known as
Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi,
and
Yukunais
,
[1]
is an
Arawakan language
spoken in several communities along the
Miriti-Parana River
in
Colombia
.
Extinct Guaru (Garu) was either a dialect or a closely related language. Yucuna is a polysynthetic language, and it uses SVO word order.
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Phonology
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The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.
[4]
- ^
/ŋ/ occurs as an allophone of /n/ before /k/.
- ^
/k/ can be written
⟨qu⟩
before front vowels, and
⟨c⟩
otherwise.
Notes and references
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Notes
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Bibliography
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- 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
.
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External links
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- Resources by ethnographer Laurent Fontaine:
- Resources by linguist Magdalena Lemus Serrano:
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