Editing Ticuna language (section)

{{Short description|Ticuna–Yuri language spoken in Amazon Basin}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Tïcuna
| nativename       = {{lang|tca|Duüxügu}}
| states           = [[Brazil]], [[Colombia]], [[Peru]]
| region           = West Amazonas. Also spoken in Colombia, Peru.
| coordinates      = {{coord|3|15|S|68|35|W|type:landmark|display=inline}}
| ethnicity        = [[Ticuna people]]
| speakers         = 63,000
| date             = 2021
| familycolor      = American
| fam1             = [[Ticuna–Yuri languages|Tïcuna–Yuri]] ?
| iso3             = tca
| glotto           = ticu1245
| glottorefname    = Ticuna
| map              = Ticuna.png
| mapcaption       = Distribution of speakers of the Ticuna language
| ref              = {{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
}}

'''Ticuna''', '''Tikuna''', '''Tucuna''' or '''Tukuna''' is a language spoken by approximately 50,000 people in the [[Amazon basin|Amazon Basin]], including the countries of [[Brazil]], [[Peru]], and [[Colombia]]. It is the native language of the [[Ticuna people]] and is considered "stable" by ethnologue.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Size and vitality of Ticuna |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/size-and-vitality/tca |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}</ref> Ticuna is generally classified as a [[language isolate]], but may be related to the extinct [[Yuri language (Amazon)|Yuri language]] (see [[Ticuna-Yuri languages|Tïcuna-Yuri]]) and there has been some research indicating similarities between Ticuna and [[Carabayo language|Carabayo]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2014/04/28/linking-isolated-languages-linguistic-relationships-carabayo/|title=Linking Isolated Languages: Linguistic Relationships of the Carabayo|date=28 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Seifart|first1=Frank|last2=Echeverri|first2=Juan Alvaro|date=2014-04-16|title=Evidence for the Identification of Carabayo, the Language of an Uncontacted People of the Colombian Amazon, as Belonging to the Tikuna-Yurí Linguistic Family|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=9|issue=4|pages=e94814|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0094814|issn=1932-6203|pmc=3989239|pmid=24739948|bibcode=2014PLoSO...994814S|doi-access=free}}</ref>  It is a [[Tonal Language|tonal language]], and therefore the meaning of words with the same phonemes can vary greatly simply by changing the tone used to pronounce them.

Tïcuna is also known as Magta, Maguta, Tucuna/Tukuna, and Tukna.