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| glotto = tara1324

| glottorefname = Taranoan

| glottorefname = Taranoan

| child1 = ”[[Karihona language|Karihona]]”

| child1 = ”[[ language|Karihona]]”

| child2 = [[Akurio language|Akurio]]–[[Tiriyó language|Tiriyó]]

| child2 = [[Akurio language|Akurio]]–[[Tiriyó language|Tiriyó]]

| child3 = ?”[[Patagón language (Peru)|Patagón]]” {{extinct}}

| child3 = ”[[ language|]]” {{extinct}}

| child4 = ?”[[Patagón language (Peru)|Patagón]]” {{extinct}}

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Language group

The Taranoan languages are a subgroup of the Cariban language family. The languages are spoken in Brazil, Suriname, and Colombia.[1]

The Taranoan languages according to Sérgio Meira (2006) are:[2]: 169 

With approximately 2,000 speakers, Tiriyó is the only language that is not close to extinction. Akuriyó and Karihona each have only a few elderly speakers left.

  1. ^ Meira, Sérgio. 1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology. M.A. dissertation. Rice University.
  2. ^ Meira, Sérgio. 2006. A família lingüística Caribe (Karíb). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas v.3, n.1/2, p.157-174. Brasília: FUNAI. (PDF)

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