Yucuna language

Yucuna (Jukuna), also known as Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi, and Yukunais[4], an Arawakan language of Colombia. Extinct Guarú (Garú) was either a dialect or a closely related language.

Yucuna
Jukuna
Native toColombia
Native speakers
1,800 (2001)[1]
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Upper Amazon
      • Western Nawiki
        • Yucuna
Language codes
ISO 639-3ycn
qqj (Guarú)
Glottologyucu1253  Yucuna[2]
guar1294  Guaru[3]

References

  1. Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yucuna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guaru". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. "Yucuna". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-23.


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