Tariana language

Tariana language

language
name=Tariana
familycolor=American
states=Brazil
speakers=100
fam1=Arawakan
fam2=Maipurean
fam3=Northern Maipuran
fam4=Eastern Nawiki
iso3=tae
Tariana (also Tariano) is an endangered Maipurean language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately 100 people.

Speakers of Tariana are switching to the unrelated Tucano language (of the Tucanoan family).

Research on Tariana, including a grammar book and a Tariana-Portuguese dictionary have been written by Alexandra Aikhenvald from the La Trobe University, who is a specialist on the Arawak language family.

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s1062928.htm Telling the Truth in Tariana] - ABC radio documentary transcript
* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/Tariana/tariana-index.htm Tariana at La Trobe University] - dictionary and other documents are available for download


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