Taranoan
Geographic
distribution		Brazil, Suriname, Colombia
Linguistic classificationCariban
  • Guianan Carib
    • Taranoan
Glottologtara1324

The Taranoan languages are a subgroup of the Cariban language family. The languages are spoken in Brazil, Suriname, and Colombia.[1]

Languages

The Taranoan languages according to Sérgio Meira (2006) are:[2]: 169 

With approximately 2,000 speakers, Tiriyó is the only language that is not close to extinction. Akuriyó and Karihona each have only a few elderly speakers left.

References

Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Taranoan reconstructions
  1. ↑ Meira, Sérgio. 1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology. M.A. dissertation. Rice University.
  2. ↑ Meira, Sérgio. 2006. A família lingüística Caribe (Karíb). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas v.3, n.1/2, p.157-174. Brasília: FUNAI. (PDF)


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