Tariano

E643933

Tariano is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Tariana people of the northwest Amazon region in Brazil.

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Tariano canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
natural language
belongsToCulturalArea Northwest Amazonia
country Brazil
ethnicGroup Tariana people
glottocode tari1258
hasAlternativeName Tariana
hasAlternativeSpelling Tariana
hasClauseType complex clause chaining
hasDocumentedGrammar A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
hasEvidentialityType obligatory verbal evidentials
hasFeature case marking
complex verbal morphology
evidentiality system
gender marking
number marking
hasLanguageEndangermentCause language shift to Portuguese
language shift to Tucano
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
verb-final tendencies
hasMorphologicalAlignment nominative-accusative tendencies
hasNeighborLanguageContact Baniwa
linked to: Kurripako-Baniwa

Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language

Tucano
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (limited or marginal)
nasal harmony
hasResearcher Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
hasShiftPressureFrom Portuguese
Tucano
hasSociolinguisticFeature linguistic exogamy area participation
hasSpeakerCommunity Vaupés River Basin multilingual area
ISO639-3Code tae
isSpokenAlong Rio Negro
Uaupés River
linked to: Apaporis River
languageFamily Arawakan
linked to: Arawakan languages
primaryContactLanguage Portuguese
Tucano
region Amazonas state
spokenBy Tariana people
spokenIn Brazil
northwest Amazon region
status endangered language
subfamily Northern Arawakan
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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