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Yucuna
Jukuna
Native to	Colombia
Native speakers	1,800 (2001)
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Western Nawiki Yucuna
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ycn
Linguist List	qqj (Guarú)
Glottolog	yucu1253  Yucuna guar1294  Guaru
ELP	Yucuna

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.

Phonology

The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.

1. /ŋ/ occurs as an allophone of /n/ before /k/.
2. /k/ can be written ⟨qu⟩ before front vowels, and ⟨c⟩ otherwise.

Notes and references

Notes

1. ^ Yucuna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Lemus Serrano 2020, p. 1.
3. "Yucuna Language and the Yucuna Indian Tribe (Yukuna, Jucuna, Matapi)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
4. Schauer, Stanley; Shauer, Junia (1967). Yucuna Phonemics. The Long Now Foundation. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

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). "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

• 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:
  • Documentation of Yucuna (source: Endangered Languages Archive).

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