Endangered Languages Project - Tanimuca-Retuarã

Tanimuca-Retuarã

^{[aka Uairã, Tanimuca-Letuama, Retuama]}

Classification: Tucanoan

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Uairã, Tanimuca-Letuama, Retuama, Retuarã, Letuama, Letuhama, Ufaina, Tanimuca-Retuar
CLASSIFICATION		Tucanoan, Western Tucanoan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tnc
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Retuarã Tanimuca
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Tanimuca and Retuarã are 2 ethnic groups living near each other who speak the same language (Ethnologue 2016).

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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

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1,952
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1952
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The language is no longer spoken near non-indigenous villages.

DATE OF INFO: 2001

PLACES: Colombia

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,800
SEMI SPEAKERS
300?
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
300 total. 180 Tanimuca. Retuarã more monolingual than Tanimuca. Ethnic population: 1,800.
(Unchanged 2016.)

DATE OF INFO: 1976 (speakers), 2007 (ethnic population)

PLACES: Colombia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Vaupés and Amazonas departments, Guacayá and Oiyaka rivers (tributaries of the Mirití-Paraná), Mirití-Paraná, Apaporis, and Popeyaca rivers near the mouth of the Pira River below Popeyaca.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,247
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Instituto Caro y Cuervo 2000: 400-500; Arango y Sánchez 2004: 1,247; Censo 2005: 342.

PLACES: Colombia

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

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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