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]
| Yucuna | |
|---|---|
| Jukuna | |
| Native to | Colombia |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2001)[1] |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ycn |
qqj (Guarú) | |
| Glottolog | yucu1253 Yucunaguar1294 Guaru |
| ELP | Yucuna |
 | |
Phonology
editThe Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.[4]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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⟩ | |||||
Notes and references
editNotes
edit- ^ a b Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 1.
- ^ "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
edit- 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.
- Lemus Serrano, Magdalena (2020). Pervasive nominalization in Yukuna, an Arawak language of Colombian Amazonia (PDF) (PhD thesis). Université Lumière Lyon 2.
External links
edit- 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: