Tacana
Tacana is a Pano-Tacanan language spoken in Bolivia, by about 1,800 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Tacana is a Western Tacanan language spoken by some 1,800 Tacana people in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of 5,000. They live in the forest along the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers in the north of La Paz Department. Numerous dialects, now extinct, have been attributed to Tacana: Ayaychuna, Babayana, Chiliuvo, Chivamona, Idiama (Ixiama), Pamaino, Pasaramona, Saparuna, Siliama, Tumupasa (Maracani, "Tupamasa"), Uchupiamona, Yabaypura, and Yubamona.
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Written down
Beju pamapa cristianu cuana d'ei ai papú yapuji, mesa cuara peje jenetia ecuinanani jenetia beju saida bataji tupu pai cama.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Tacana
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | ebani* | |
| eye | etua* | |
| ear | eijaha* | |
| nose | evi* | |
| tooth | ece* | |
| tongue | yana* | |
| hand | eme* | |
| blood | ami* | |
| bone | ecau* | |
| skin | ebiti* | |
| knee | emadaCua* | |
| breast | acu* | |
| liver | etkwa* | |
| water | yab̵i | |
| fire | kwatidareda* | |
| sun | ijeti* | |
| stone | tumu* | |
| mountain | emata* | |
| tree | aki* | |
| leaf | eina* | |
| night | dida* | |
| dog | uCi* | |
| fish | se* | |
| louse | bia* | |
| one | piada* | |
| two | beta* | |
| I | ema* | |
| you | mike* | |
| we | eceda* | |
| see | ba* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · taca1256 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · tna