Tacana language
Tacana is a Western Tacanan language spoken by some 1,800 Tacana people in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of 5,000. They live in the forest along the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers in the north of La Paz Department. Numerous dialects, now extinct, have been attributed to Tacana: Ayaychuna, Babayana, Chiliuvo, Chivamona, Idiama (Ixiama), Pamaino, Pasaramona, Saparuna, Siliama, Tumupasa (Maracani, "Tupamasa"), Uchupiamona, Yabaypura, and Yubamona (Mason 1950).
| Tacana | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Bolivia |
| Region | La Paz Department (Bolivia) |
| Ethnicity | 5,100 (2004)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2004)[1] |
Tacanan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tna |
| Glottolog | taca1256[2] |
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| voiced | β | ð | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | r | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||
gollark: Which is your favourite out of [RANDOM OS ON CC FORUMS], ShutdownOS and PotatOS?
gollark: Lignum, do you like PotatOS, ShutdownOS or BurritOS more?
gollark: Replace it with Arch Linux.
gollark: Keanu: are you going to fund drones too?
gollark: .
External links
- Tacana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tacana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Lazarte, Manuel L.; Van Wynen, Donald & Mabel (1962). Fonemas tacana y modelos de acentuación. Cochabamba: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
- Tacana dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
- Tacana (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.