Tacana language

Tacana
Native to	Bolivia
Region	La Paz Department (Bolivia)
Ethnicity	5,100 (2004)[1]
Native speakers	1,800 (2004)[1]
Language family	Tacanan Araona–Tacanan Cavinena–Tacana Tacana Proper Tacana; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tna
Glottolog	taca1256[2]

Tacana is a Western Tacanan language spoken by some 1,800 Tacana people in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of 5,000. They live in the forest along the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers in the north of La Paz Department. Numerous dialects, now extinct, have been attributed to Tacana: Ayaychuna, Babayana, Chiliuvo, Chivamona, Idiama (Ixiama), Pamaino, Pasaramona, Saparuna, Siliama, Tumupasa (Maracani, "Tupamasa"), Uchupiamona, Yabaypura, and Yubamona (Mason 1950).

External links

Tacana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tacana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Tacana dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
Tacana (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)

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[e18-1] Tacana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tacana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.