Teteté language

Teteté language

language
name=Teteté
familycolor=American
states=Ecuador, Colombia
fam1=Tucanoan
fam2=Western
iso2=sai
iso3=teb

Teteté is an extinct Tucanoan language that was spoken in Ecuador close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. It was also formerly spoken in Colombia, but is now extinct there. It was spoken by the indigenous Tetete people, who did not survive the twentieth century. [http://filebox.vt.edu/users/brmill10/portfolio/research-amazon.html]

Tetete is close to the Secoya language.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=teb Ethnologue report for language code:teb]

Bibliography

* Campbell, Lyle. (1997). "American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America". New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
* Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the world" (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).


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