Yucuna language
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Yucuna (Jukuna), also known as Matapi, Yucuna-Matapi, and Yukunais, 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.
The Matapi, a Tucanoan people, lived at the headwaters of the Popeyacá and Yapiyá, tributaries to the Miriti River and Apaporis River but most may have been sold as slaves or moved to Brazil. The remainder joined the Yucuna.
Phonology
The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ ⟨ñ⟩ | (ŋ) | ||
| Plosive | unaspirated | p | t | t͡ʃ ⟨ch⟩ | k ⟨c/qu⟩ | ʔ ⟨'⟩ |
| aspirated | pʰ ⟨ph⟩ | tʰ ⟨th⟩ | ||||
| Fricative | s | h ⟨j⟩ | ||||
| Approximant | w ⟨hu⟩ | l | j ⟨y⟩ | |||
| Tap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ |
See also
Notes and references
Notes
Bibliography
- 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). (PDF). Interface Focus. 13 (20220056). doi:. PMC . PMID . S2CID .
- Lemus Serrano, Magdalena (2020). (PDF) (PhD thesis). Université Lumière Lyon 2.
External links
- Resources by ethnographer Laurent Fontaine: , in open access (source: Pangloss Collection of CNRS). (in Yucuna and French)
- Resources by linguist Magdalena Lemus Serrano: (source: Endangered Languages Archive).