Taranoan languages explained

Taranoan
Region:	Brazil, Suriname, Colombia
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Cariban
Fam2:	Guianan Carib
Glotto:	tara1324
Glottorefname:	Taranoan

The Taranoan languages are a subgroup of the Cariban language family. The languages are spoken in Brazil, Suriname, and Colombia.^[1]

Languages

The Taranoan languages according to Sérgio Meira (2006) are:^[2]

• Taranoan
  • Karihona (Carijona)
    • • • Akuriyó
    • Tiriyó

With approximately 2,000 speakers, Tiriyó is the only language that is not close to extinction. Akuriyó and Karihona each have only a few elderly speakers left.

Notes and References

1. Meira, Sérgio. 1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology. M.A. dissertation. Rice University.
2. Meira, Sérgio. 2006. A família lingüística Caribe (Karíb). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas v.3, n.1/2, p.157-174. Brasília: FUNAI. (PDF)