Tanimuca-Retuarã

Tanimuca-Retuarã (also: Retuarã; Tanimuca-Retuar; Retuama; Letuama; Letuhama; Ufaina; Uairã) is a language that is spoken in the jungles of Colombia . It belongs to the group of Tucano languages . The language area is located in the Amazon region in southeastern Colombia and is divided into four regions.

The Retuarã language is related to the Tanimuca language, although the two ethnic groups consider each other to be ethnically unrelated.

The language has already found its way into the Unicode standard. There you will find the letter Ᵽ . The ISO 639-3 code is: tnc.

literature

Clay Strom, Retuara Syntax: Studies in the Languages ​​of Colombia , ISBN 978-0-8831-2181-8

Web links

• Distribution area (JavaScript)
• ISO-639 entry
• Languages ​​of Colombia (eng.)