Taranoan languages

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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.

Wiktionary has a list of reconstructed forms at Appendix:Proto-Taranoan reconstructions

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