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Language Information By Source

Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,153

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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Ethnic Population

7,345

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Amazonia (Bolivia)

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Standard orthography

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,820

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

5058

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Speaker number and ethnic population data: (Adelaar 2000). 1,820 (Adelaar 2004). Ethnic population: 5,060 (Adelaar 2004) (2013 unchanged).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Bolivia;

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Location description

Beni and Madre de Dios rivers, jungle, some in foothills

Government support

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Beni and Madre de Dios rivers, jungle, some in foothills

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~1,820

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Ethnic Population

5,060

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

In 1965, there were still 3,000 to 4,000 speakers of Tacana reported. This implies a massive shift to Spanish, which is spoken by 100 per cent of the Tacana population.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Bolivia, Department of La Paz

Coordinates

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Location description

Province of Iturralde (cantons of Tumupasa and Ixiamas, north of La Paz); some groups scattered along the banks of the Orton, Beni and Madre de Dios rivers.

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Other writing systems

Province of Iturralde (cantons of Tumupasa and Ixiamas, north of La Paz); some groups scattered along the banks of the Orton, Beni and Madre de Dios rivers.

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-13.5,-68.0

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,821

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  1. La Famille Linguistique Takana
    De Créqui-montfort, Georges and Paul Rivet. 1921, 1921, 1922, 1923. "La Famille Linguistique Takana." In Journal de la Société des Américanistes, XIII, XIII, XIV, XV: 91-102, 281-302, 141-182, 121-167.
  2. Textos tacana
    Ottaviano, Ida de. 1980. "Textos Tacana." Instituto Lingüı.
  3. La lengua Tacana de la región del Rio Madre de Dios (Bolivia)
    Lafone Quevedo, S. A. 1902. "La Lengua Tacana De La Región Del Rio Madre De Dios (Bolivia)." In Congrès International des Américanistes (XIIe. Session tenue a Paris en 1900), 331-337. Paris: Érnest Leroux.
  4. Bolivien: Gebiet des Rio Beni und der angrenzenden Regionen
    Hissink, Karin. 1962. "Bolivien: Gebiet Des Rio Beni Und Der Angrenzenden Regionen." In Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological Ethnological Research, 5: 159-161.
  5. Bibliografía Pano-Tacana
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    Ribeiro, Lincoln Almir Amarante. 2003. "Uma Proposta De Método Quantitativo Aplicado À Análise Comparativa Das Línguas Pano E Tacana." In Liames, 3: 135-147.
  7. Tacana
    Ottaviano, John and Ida Ottaviano. 1967. "Tacana." In Bolivian Indian grammars 1, edited by Esther Matteson. 16: 139-207. Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma.
  8. Tacana y Castellano
    van Wynen, Donald and Mabel Garrard De van Wynen. 1962. "Tacana Y Castellano." 2: Instituto Lingüı.
  9. La Famille Linguistique Takana (suite)
    Créqui-Montfort, G. de and P. Rivet. 1923. "La Famille Linguistique Takana (suite)." In Journal de la Société des Américanistes, XV: 121-168.
  10. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
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  11. The Language of the Tacana Indians (Bolivia)
    Schuller, R. 1933. "The Language of the Tacana Indians (Bolivia)." In Anthropos, 28: 99-116, 463-484.
  12. Tacana
    Ottaviano, John and Ida Ottaviano. 1965. "Tacana." In Gramáticas estructurales de lenguas bolivianas 3, edited by Esther Matteson. 309-417. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
  13. The World Atlas of Language Structures
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    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  15. South America
    Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.
  16. Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
    Crevels, Mily. 2012. "Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock Is Ticking." In The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Hans Henrich Hock et al.. 167-234. Mouton de Gruyter.
  17. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org