Ticuna–Yuri languages explained
| Ticuna–Yuri |
| Region: | western Amazon |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Glotto: | ticu1244 |
| Glottorefname: | Ticuna–Yuri |
| Family: | Duho (proposed) |
| Child1: | Tïcuna |
| Child2: | Yuri † |
| Child3: | ? Carabayo |
| Child4: | ? Munichi |
Ticuna–Yuri is a small family, perhaps even a dialect continuum, consisting of at least two, and perhaps three, known languages of South America: the major western Amazonian language Ticuna, the poorly attested and extinct Yurí, and the scarcely known language of the largely uncontacted Carabayo. Kaufman (2007: 68) also adds Munichi to the family.[1]
Kaufman (1990, 1994) argues that the connection between the two is convincing even with the limited information available. Carvalho (2009) presented "compelling" evidence for the family (Campbell 2012).[2]
Language contact
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Andoke-Urekena, Arawak, Arutani, Máku, and Tukano language families due to contact.[3]
Bibliography
- Anderson, D. (1962). Conversational Ticuna. Yarinacocha: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- Anderson, L. (1961). Vocabulario breve del idioma ticuna. Tradición, 8:53-68.
- de Alviano, F. (1944). Gramática, dictionário, verbos e frases e vocabulário prático da léngua dos índios ticunas. Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional.
- Goulard, J.; Rodriguez Montes, M. E. (2013). Los yurí/juri-tikuna en el complejo socio-lingüístico del Noroeste Amazónico. LIAMES, 13:7-65.
- Montes Rodríguez, M. E. (2003). Morfosintaxis de la lengua Tikuna (Amazonía colombiana). (CESO-CCELA, Descripciones, 15). Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes.
References
- Book: Kaufman, Terrence . Terrence Kaufman . 1990 . Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more . David L. Payne . Amazonian Linguistics . 13−74 . Austin . University of Texas Press.
- Book: Kaufman, Terrence . Terrence Kaufman . 1994 . The native languages of South America . Atlas of the world's languages . Moseley, Christopher . R.E. Asher . 46−76 . London . Routledge.
Notes and References
- Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. South America. In: R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World’s Languages (2nd edition), 59–94. London: Routledge.
- Book: Campbell, Lyle . Lyle Campbell . Grondona . Verónica . Campbell . Lyle . 2012 . The Indigenous Languages of South America . Classification of the indigenous languages of South America . The World of Linguistics . 2 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 59–166 . 9783110255133.
- Jolkesky . Marcelo Pinho de Valhery . 2016 . Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas . Ph.D. dissertation . Brasília . University of Brasília . 2.
