Endangered Languages Project - Yucuna

Yucuna

^{[aka Chucuna, Matapi, Yukuna]}

Classification: Arawakan

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Chucuna, Matapi, Yukuna, Matapí, Jukuna
CLASSIFICATION		Arawakan, Northern Arawakan, Upper Amazon
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ycn
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Yucuna and Garú may be dialects of a single language or separate languages.

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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
770
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
770

PLACES: Colombia

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
550
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Instituto Caro y Cuervo 2000: 1,000-2,000; Arango y Sánchez 2004: 550; Censo 2005: 396.

PLACES: Colombia

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,800
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,800
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (SIL 2001). 10 to 20 monolinguals.

1,800 (2001 SIL). 10 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 1,800 (2013, no change).

MORE ON VITALITY

Vigorous. All domains.

PLACES: Colombia;

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Amazonas Department, Puerto Santander municipality, 3 enclaves; Mirití-Paraná, La Pedrera on lower Caquetá, Ararcuara, Leticia; part of westernmost enclave in Caqueta Department.

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press