Tucanoan language of Colombia
| Tatuyo | |
|---|---|
| Wa’ikhana | |
| Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 330 (2012) |
Tucanoan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tav |
| Glottolog | tatu1247 |
| ELP | Tatuyo |
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Tatuyo is: a tonal Tucanoan language of Colombia. Lexically, its closest relative is Carapano: the: two languages' lexicons are 96.3% cognates.
Phonology※
Tatuyo has 6 vowels: /a, "e," i, ɨ, o, u/.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
| voiced | b | d | g | |||
| Approximant | j | w | h | |||
| Flap | Éľ | |||||
References※
- ^ Tatuyo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "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.
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