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Tatuyo

A language of Colombia

ISO 639-3: tav

Population	400 (2007 SIL).
Region	Vaupés region, Pira-Paraná headwaters and Upper Papurí.
Language map	Southern Colombia, reference number 4
Alternate names	Pamoa, Oa, Tatutapuyo, Juna, Sina, Sura
Classification	Tucanoan, Eastern Tucanoan, Central, Tatuyo
Language use	All use at least one other Tucanoan language.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: Below 5%. NT: 1987.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Majority marry Carapana, Northern Barasano, or Barasana women. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bostrom, Paula Kaye. 1998. Nominalizations and relative clauses in Tatuyo: a prototype approach.

Gawthorne, Linda A., editor. 1976. Estudios tucanos 4.  

Longacre, Robert E. and Frances M. Woods, editors. 1977. Discourse grammar: Studies in indigenous languages of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, 3.  

Mountain, Kathy. 1978. "Lista de palabras Swadesh y Rowe."  

Whisler, David and Janice Whisler. 1976. "Fonología del tatuyo."  

Whisler, David and Janice Whisler. 1979. "Tatuyo."  

Whisler, David. 1976. "Pino (Boa: Texto del tatuyo)."  

Whisler, David. 1977. "Some aspects of Tatuyo discourse."  

Vernacular Publications

¡Riaye ã!. 1974.

Abecedario Tatuyo ye. 1996.

Buerique. 1978.

Buerique. 1984.