Arawakan language of Colombia
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. Extinct Guarú (Garú) was either a dialect or a closely related language. Yucuna is a polysynthetic language, and it uses SVO word order.[3]
Phonology
The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.[4]
- ^ /ŋ/ occurs as an allophone of /n/ before /k/.
- ^ /k/ can be written ⟨qu⟩ before front vowels, and ⟨c⟩ otherwise.
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ a b Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Yucuna Language and the Yucuna Indian Tribe (Yukuna, Jucuna, Matapi)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- ^ Schauer, Stanley; Shauer, Junia (1967). Yucuna Phonemics. The Long Now Foundation. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Bibliography
- Lemus Serrano, Magdalena (2020). Pervasive nominalization in Yukuna, an Arawak language of Colombian Amazonia (PDF). PhD dissertation, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
- Arias Leonardo, Emlen Nicholas Q., Norder Sietze, Julmi Nora, Lemus Serrano Magdalena, Chacon Thiago, Wiegertjes Jurriaan, Howard Austin, Azevedo Matheus C. B. C., Caine Allison, Dunn Saskia, Stoneking Mark & Van Gijn Rik (2022). "Interpreting mismatches between linguistic and genetic patterns among speakers of Tanimuka (Eastern Tukanoan) and Yukuna (Arawakan)" (PDF). Interface Focus. 13 (20220056). doi:10.1098/rsfs.2022.0056. PMC 9732642. PMID 36655193. S2CID 254409212.
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External links
- Resources by ethnographer Laurent Fontaine:
- Audio recordings in the Yucuna language, in open access (source: Pangloss Collection of CNRS).
- The Yucuna Indians
- Corpus of myths and tales (in Yucuna and French)
- Ethnographic films of the Yucuna Indians with texts of dialogues
- Resources by linguist Magdalena Lemus Serrano:
