Tikuna language

E1005911

The Tikuna language is an indigenous language of the western Amazon, spoken primarily by the Tikuna people in parts of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Tikuna language family 1

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazonian language
American language
indigenous language
country Federative Republic of Brazil NERFINISHED
Republic of Colombia NERFINISHED
Republic of Peru NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Tikuna people NERFINISHED
glottologCode ticu1245
hasAlternativeName Magüta language
Ticuna language
Tikúna language NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
nasal vowels
tonal language
hasSpeakerPopulationRegion Amazonas department, Colombia NERFINISHED
Amazonas state, Brazil NERFINISHED
Loreto region, Peru NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code tca
isSubjectOf linguistic typology studies of tone
studies on language contact in the Amazon basin
languageFamily Tikuna-Yuri language family NERFINISHED
region western Amazon
spokenBy Tikuna people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Colombia NERFINISHED
Peru NERFINISHED
status vulnerable language
usedFor daily communication in Tikuna communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tikuna people language Tikuna language
Tikuna people languageFamily Tikuna language
this entity surface form: Tikuna language family