Teteté language
Encyclopedia
Teteté is an extinct
Tucanoan language that was spoken in Ecuador
close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. It was also formerly spoken in Colombia
, but is now extinct
there. It was spoken by the indigenous Tetete people
, who did not survive the twentieth century.http://filebox.vt.edu/users/brmill10/portfolio/research-amazon.html
Tetete is close to the Secoya language
.
Extinct language
An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers., or that is no longer in current use. Extinct languages are sometimes contrasted with dead languages, which are still known and used in special contexts in written form, but not as ordinary spoken languages for everyday communication...
Tucanoan language that was spoken in Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. It was also formerly spoken in Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, but is now extinct
Extinct language
An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers., or that is no longer in current use. Extinct languages are sometimes contrasted with dead languages, which are still known and used in special contexts in written form, but not as ordinary spoken languages for everyday communication...
there. It was spoken by the indigenous Tetete people
Tetete people
The Tetete were a small group of Western Tucanoan speakers living in the Ecuadorian Amazon or Oriente. Today, their territory would lie within Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, a popular site for ecotourism...
, who did not survive the twentieth century.http://filebox.vt.edu/users/brmill10/portfolio/research-amazon.html
Tetete is close to the Secoya language
Secoya language
The Secoya language is a Western Tucanoan language spoken by 297 Secoya people in Ecuador and 144 in Peru....
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