Ticuna-Yuri languages

Ticuna-Yuri languages

Infobox Language family
name=Tïcuna-Yuri
region=western Amazon
familycolor=American
family=
child1="Tïcuna"
child2="Yuri"

Tïcuna-Yuri is a proposed connection between two language isolates of South America, the major western Amazonian language Tïcuna, and the poorly attested Yurí. Kaufman (1990) finds the connection convincing.

References

cite book
author=Kaufman, Terrence
year=1990
chapter=Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more
editor=David L. Payne
title=Amazonian Linguistics
pages=13−74
location=Austin
publisher=University of Texas Press

cite book
author =Kaufman, Terrence
year = 1994
chapter = The native languages of South America
title = Atlas of the world's languages
editor = Moseley, Christopher; R.E. Asher
pages = 46−76
location=London
publisher=Routledge


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