Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ...

Family division

Tucanoan consists of 15 languages:

I. Western Tucanoan

1. Correguaje (a.k.a. Coreguaje, Caquetá, Korewahe, Koreguaje)

2. Macaguaje (a.k.a. Kakawahe, Piohé, Secoya, Siona-Secoya) (†)

3. Teteté (a.k.a. Tetete, Eteteguaje)

4. Orejón (a.k.a. Coto, Payoguaje, Payaguá, Koto, Payowahe, Payawá)

5. Yauna (a.k.a. Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna)

II. Central Tucanoan Yona, Yonaka or Yavana is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greeks. ...

6. Cubeo (a.k.a. Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubewa)

III. Eastern Tucanoan

7. Macuna (a.k.a. Buhagana, Wahana, Makuna-Erulia, Makuna)

8. Yupuá-Durina (†)

9. Cueretú (a.k.a. Kueretú) (†)

10. Desano-Siriano (a.k.a. Desano)

11. Bará-Tuyuka (a.k.a. Pocanga, Pakang, Tejuca, Teyuka, Tuyuca, Bara)

12. Carapano (a.k.a. Carapana, Karapana)

13. Tucano (a.k.a. Tukana, Dasea)

14. Guanano (a.k.a. Wanana, Kotedia, Wanana-Pirá)

15. Piratapuyo (a.k.a. Waikina, Uiquina)

Macaguaje, Yupuá-Durina, and Cueretú are now extinct. Tucano (also Tukana, Tucana, Tukano, Dasea, Jurutí, Jurití, Yurutí, Tariana, Tariano, Koneá, Koreá, Patsoka, Wahyara; autonym: Dahseyé) is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia by approximately 4,600 people. ... An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ...

Most languages are/were spoken in Colombia.

External links

• Ethnologue: Tucanoan
• Proel: Familia Tucanoana

Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-2927-0414-3.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.