Yukuna

E656827

Yukuna is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Yukuna people of the Colombian Amazon.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yukuna canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
indigenous people
continent South America
country Colombia
Colombia
ethnicGroup Yukuna people
ethnicLanguage Yukuna
hasAlternativeName Jukuna
linked to: Jukun

Yucuna
Yucuna-Matapí
linked to: Yucuna language
hasPhonologicalFeature nasalization contrast
tone or pitch accent (reported variably)
ISO639-3Code ycn
languageFamily Arawakan
linked to: Arawakan languages
languageFamilyBranch Maipurean
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
morphology polysynthetic tendencies
neighboringLanguages Matapí
Tanimuca
region Amazon rainforest
Colombian Amazon
spokenBy Yukuna people
spokenIn Colombia
Colombian Amazon
status endangered language
subfamily Northern Arawakan languages
subjectOf descriptive grammars
ethnolinguistic studies
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Jucuna hasAlternativeName Yukuna
Yukuna people ethnicLanguage Yukuna
subject linked to: Yukuna