Tatuyo

Facts

  • Language: Tatuyo
  • Alternate names: Oa, Tatuyo, Pamoa, Tatutapuyo, Juna, Tatu-tapuya, Karapaná, Karapano, Carapana-Tapuya, Mochda, Moxdoa, Mextã
  • Language code: tav
  • Language family: Tucanoan, Eastern Tucanoan, Carapano (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 331
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Majority marry Carapana, Northern Barasano, or Barasana women.

    Part of Carapano (Karapaná, Karapano, Carapana-Tapuya, Tatuyo, Mochda, Moxdoa, Mextã). Ethnologue considers Tatuyo as separate languages of the "East Central" branch of "Eastern Tukanoan."