Ticuna

Duüxügu

Ticuna is a Ticuna-Yuri language spoken in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, by about 61 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Ticuna (Ticuna: Duüxügu), also known as Tikuna, Tucuna or Tukuna, is a language spoken by approximately 50,000 people in the Amazon Basin, including the countries of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. It is the native language of the Ticuna people and is considered "stable" by Ethnologue. Ticuna is generally classified as a language isolate, but is apparently related to the extinct Yuri language (see Tïcuna-Yuri) and there has been some research indicating similarities between Ticuna and Carabayo. It is a tonal language, and therefore the meaning of words with the same phonemes can vary greatly simply by changing the tone used to pronounce them.

Tïcuna is also known as Magta, Maguta, Tucuna/Tukuna, and Tukna.

From Wikipedia · Ticuna language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

Ngẽxguma nabuxgu i duü̃xü̃gü rü guxü̃ma nawüxigu, rü tataxuma ya texé ya togüarü yexera ixĩsẽ. Rü guxü̃ma naxããẽgü rü ngẽmaca̱x rü name nixĩ na nügümaã namecümaxü̃ ĩ guxü̃ma ĩ duü̃xü̃gü.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Ticuna

Meaning	Word	Romanization
name	naega*
eye	et3*
ear	Cin3*
nose	ra3*
tooth	p3ta*
tongue	kon3*
hand	me*
blood	nagu*
bone	naCina7a*
skin	naCam3*
knee	ap373*
breast	ma7i*
liver	ka*
water	dexa
sun	iake*
star	e7ta*
stone	nuta*
tree	nai*
night	C3ta7i3*
dog	airu*
fish	Coni*
louse	naCi*
one	w37i*
two	tare*
I	Cama7*
you	kuma7*
we	yi7ema7*
drink	a73*
see	nadau*
die	Cayu*