| Yucuna | |
| Nativename: | Jukuna |
| States: | Colombia |
| Speakers: | 1,800 |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Arawakan |
| Fam2: | Northern |
| Fam3: | Upper Amazon |
| Fam4: | Western Nawiki |
| Iso3: | ycn |
| Linglist: | qqj |
| Lingname: | (Guarú) |
| Glotto: | yucu1253 |
| Glottoname: | Yucuna |
| Glotto2: | guar1294 |
| Glottoname2: | Guaru |
| Map: | Yucuna.png |
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.[1]
The Yucuna phoneme inventory consists of 16 consonants and 5 vowels.[2]
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| pronounced as /pʰ/ | pronounced as /tʰ/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | h | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Tap | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||