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Tucano Indian Language (Dahseyé)

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

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Tucano Language Resources

Tribes and Languages of Brazil:
Map showing the areas in Brazil where Tukano is spoken.

Tucano Linguistic Description

Tucano Orthography

Tucano Phonology

Tucano Text:
Scanned-in Tucano language materials from the Rosetta Project.

Tucano Alphabet:
Phonological inventory of the Tucano language, with a sample text.

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.

House of Languages: Tucano

Pisamira:
Information about Tucano language usage.

Tucano Language:
Demographic information on Tucano from the Ethnologue of Languages.

Tucano Language Tree:
Theories about Tucano's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Wikipedia: Tucano:
Encyclopedia article about the Tucano language.

Tucano Language Structures:
Tucano linguistic profile and academic bibliography.

Tucano Culture and History Links

The Tukano Tribe:
Online ethnography of the Tukanos of Brazil.

The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia:
Anthropology book on the social structures of the Tucano and other Tucanoan tribes.

Links, References, and Additional Information

Wikipedia: Tucanos:

Britannica: Tucano:
Encyclopedia articles on the Tucanos and their language.
Los Tucano:

Los indios tukano:
Information about the Tucanos in Spanish.

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