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Tucano Indian Language (Dahseyé)

Tucano is a Tucanoan language of South America, spoken by 5000 people in Brazil and Colombia. It is a tone language with SOV word order.



˜Tucano Language Resources –

Tucano Linguistic Description * Tucano Orthography * Tucano Phonology * Tucano Text:
    Scanned-in Tucano language materials from the Rosetta Project.
La Lengua Tukana:
    Information on Tukano including linguistic maps of South America. Page in Spanish.
Language Museum: Tucano * Genesis in Tucano:
    Translations of Bible passages into Siriano.
Tucano Language:
    Demographic information on Tucano from the Ethnologue of Languages.

˜Tucano Culture and History Links –

Tukano Culture:
    Article on the history and traditions of the Tucano tribe.
Los Tucano: * Los indios tukano:
    Information about the Tucanos in Spanish.



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