Taranoan languages

Language group

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Taranoan
Geographic distribution	Brazil, Suriname, Colombia
Linguistic classification	Cariban Guianan Carib Taranoan
Glottolog	`tara1324`

The Taranoan languages are a subgroup of the Cariban language family. The languages are spoken in Brazil, Suriname, and Colombia.^[1]

Languages

The Taranoan languages according to Sérgio Meira (2006) are:^[2]^: 169

Taranoan
- Karihona (Carijona)
- - Akuriyó
  - Tiriyó

With approximately 2,000 speakers, Tiriyó is the only language that is not close to extinction. Akuriyó and Karihona each have only a few elderly speakers left.

References

Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Taranoan reconstructions

^ Meira, Sérgio. 1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology. M.A. dissertation. Rice University.
^ Meira, Sérgio. 2006. A família lingüística Caribe (Karíb). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas v.3, n.1/2, p.157-174. Brasília: FUNAI. (PDF)