Tacanan languages
Encyclopedia
- Tacana redirects here, for the Peruvian region see Tacna RegionTacna RegionTacna is the southernmost region in Peru. Its name originates from the Quechua words taka and na , which would mean "a place to hit". This expression is thought to be related to the Quechua conquest of the Aymara people...
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Tacanan is a family of languages spoken in Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, with Ese’ejja also spoken in Peru.
Family division
- Ese’ejja ( Ese’eha, Tiatinagua, Chama, Huarayo, Guacanawa, Chuncho, Tatinawa, Ese exa)
- Araona–Tacana
- AraonaAraonaAraona or Cavina is an indigenous language spoken by the South American Araona people; about 90% of the 90 Araona people are fluent . Use of the language amongst the tribe is considered vigorous although Spanish knowledge is increasing. The Araonans live in the headwaters of the Manupari river in...
( Carina, Cavina) - Cavineña–Tacana
- CavineñaCavineñaCavineña is an indigenous language spoken on the Amazonian plains of northern Bolivia by over 1,000 Cavineño people. Although Cavineña is still spoken , it is an endangered...
( Kavinenya) - Tacana proper
- TacanaTacanaThe Tacana language is a Western Tacanan language spoken by approximately 1,800 Tacana people in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of approximately 5,000 in the jungles along the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers.-External links:*...
( Tupamasa, Takana) - ReyesanoReyesano languageReyesano is a Tacanan language that was spoken by only a few speakers, including children, in 1961 in Bolivia. It is considered nearly extinct....
( San Borjano, Maropa) - ToromonaToromonaToromona is an Indian tribe in South America that belongs to the group of uncontacted people. No non-Natives have contacted this tribe. During the Spanish colonization, Spaniards found it difficult to settle down in the area of the Amazon, where their main goal was to find a secret place called...
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- Tacana
- Cavineña
- Araona
Toromona is now extinct
Extinct language
An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers., or that is no longer in current use. Extinct languages are sometimes contrasted with dead languages, which are still known and used in special contexts in written form, but not as ordinary spoken languages for everyday communication...
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External links
- Ethnologue: Tacanan
- Proel: Familia Tacanana
- Tacana language dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)