Tucano language

Tucano
ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé
Native toBrazil, Colombia
EthnicityTucano people
Native speakers
4,600 in Brazil (2006)[1]
7,020 in Colombia (2012), including Pisamira[1]
Tucanoan
  • Eastern
    • North
      • Tucano
Official status
Official language in
 Brazil (São Gabriel da Cachoeira)
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tuo – Tucano
arj – Arapaso
Glottologtuca1252  Tucano
arap1275  Arapaso
ELPTukano
 Arapaso[2]

Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana, endonym ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé,[3] is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia.

Many Tariana people, speakers of the endangered Tariana language are switching to Tucano.

  1. ^ a b Tucano at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
    Arapaso at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Arapaso.
  3. ^ Ramirez, Henri (2019). "uúku͂sehe (ye'pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé)" (PDF). A Fala Tukano dos Ye’pâ-Masa, Tomo II: Dicionário (versão atualizada, 2019). Manaus: Inspetoria Salesiana Missionária da Amazônia. p. 194.