Tucano language
Tucanoan language spoken in Brazil and Colombia
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Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana, endonym yeʼpâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé,[2] is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.
EthnicityTucano people
Tucanoan
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Eastern
- North
- Tucano
- North
| Tucano | |
|---|---|
| yeʼpâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé | |
| Native to | Brazil, Colombia |
| Ethnicity | Tucano people |
Native speakers | 4,600 in Brazil (2006)[1] 7,020 in Colombia (2012), including Pisamira[1] |
Tucanoan
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| Official status | |
Official language in |  Brazil (São Gabriel da Cachoeira) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tuo |
| Glottolog | tuca1252 |
| ELP | Tukano |
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Many Tariana people, speakers of the endangered Tariana language are switching to Tucano.
Phonology
Consonants
Nasal sounds [m n ŋ] are variants of voiced stops /b d ɡ/ between nasal vowels. Stops may also be heard as prenasalized [ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ] after nasal vowels. /w/ can be heard as a nasal bilabial semivowel [β̞̃] in the environment of nasal vowels. Allophones of /ɾ/ can be heard as [ɾ̃], [ɺ].[3][4]
