Yucuna | |
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Jukuna | |
Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2001) [1] |
Arawakan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ycn |
qqj (Guarú) | |
Glottolog |
yucu1253 Yucuna
guar1294 Guaru |
ELP | Yucuna |
Yucuna (Jukuna), also known as Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi, and Yukunais, [1] is an Arawakan language spoken in several communities along the Mirití-Paraná River in Colombia. [2] Extinct Guarú (Garú) was either a dialect or a closely related language. Yucuna is a polysynthetic language, and it uses SVO word order. [3]
The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels. [4]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ ⟨ñ⟩ | ( ŋ) [a] | ||
Plosive | unaspirated | p | t | t͡ʃ ⟨ch⟩ | k ⟨c/qu⟩ [b] | ʔ ⟨'⟩ |
aspirated | pʰ ⟨ph⟩ | tʰ ⟨th⟩ | ||||
Fricative | s | h ⟨j⟩ | ||||
Approximant | w ⟨hu⟩ | l | j ⟨y⟩ | |||
Tap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ |
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