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Tacanan languages
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Tacanan is a family of languages spoken in Bolivia, with Ese’ejja also spoken in Peru. It may be related to the Panoan languages. Many of the languages are endangered.

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Family division

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  • Tacanan
    • Ese Ejja (a.k.a. Ese’eha, Tiatinagua, Chama, Huarayo, Guacanawa, Chuncho, Eseʼexa, Tatinawa, Ese exa)
    • Araona–Tacana

Toromono may be extinct. Another possibly extinct Tacanan language is Mabenaro; Arasa has been classified as Tacanan, but appears to have more in common with Panoan.

Loukotka (1968)

Below is a full list of Tacanan language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.[1]

  • Tacana - language with many relationships with the Arawak and Pano languages, spoken on the Beni River, Tuichi River, and Tequeje River, territory of Colonia, Bolivia; now spoken by only a few families. Dialects are:
    • Tumupasa / Maracáni - spoken on the Uchipiamona River in the same region.
    • Isiama / Ydiama - spoken on the Unduma River and around Ydiama.
  • Araona - spoken on the Madre de Dios River and Manuripi River in Colonia, Bolivia
  • Capechene / Capaheni - unknown language spoken on the Xapuri River and Rosiano River, Acre territory, Brazil. (Unattested.)
  • Sapiboca - extinct language once spoken at the old mission of Reyes, Beni province, Bolivia.
  • Chirigua / Shiribá - extinct language once spoken at the old mission of Santa Buenaventura, Beni. (Unattested.)
  • Guarizo - extinct language once spoken at the old missions of Reyes and San Antonio de Isiama.
  • Maropa - spoken in the vicinity of Lake Rogoaguado, Beni, now probably extinct.
  • Guacanahua / Chama / Ese'ejja - spoken by a small tribe on the Madidi River and Undumo River, La Paz province, Bolivia.
  • Mabenaro - spoken on the Manuripi River.
  • Caviña / Cavineña - once spoken on the Cavinas River, Madidi River, and Beni River, now probably extinct.
  • Toromona - once spoken between the Madidi River, Beni River, and Madre de Dios River, now perhaps extinct.
  • Arasa - language spoken by the greater part of the Arazaire tribe (of Pano stock) on the Marcopata River and Arasa River.
  • Tiatinagua / Mohino / Chuncho / Huarayo / Baguaja / Tambopata-Guarayo / Echoja - spoken by a tribe on the Peru-Bolivia border, on the Tambopata River.
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Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kayuvava, Tupi, and Arawak language families due to contact.[2]

Vocabulary

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Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Tacanan languages.[1]

More information gloss, Tacana ...


Sample vocabulary of four Tacanan languages, along with Proto-Panoan for comparison, from Nikulin (2019):[3]

More information gloss, Ese Ejja ...

Verbal morphology

Associated motion

Tacanan languages, in particular Cavineña and Ese Ejja, have among the richest associated motion systems in the world's languages.[4]

Further reading

  • Girard, Victor (1971). Proto-Takanan Phonology (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 70.) Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.

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