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Guanano (also Wanano) is a Tucanoan language spoken in the northwest part of Amazonas in Brazil and in Vaupés in Colombia.
Guanano belongs to the Northern branch of the Eastern Tucanoan languages, along with Arapaso, Piratapuyo, and Tucano.
There are around 550 speakers of Guanano in Brazil and 450 in Colombia.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palato alveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||
| Affricate | tʃ | |||||||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||||
| Flap | r | |||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||||
Nasalization is carried on vowels. Voiced plosives and /j/ may surface as the nasal consonants /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, and /ɲ/ in the environment of nasal vowels.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Low | e | a | o |
Syllables may be marked with either a high or low stress accent. Nasalization is suprasegmental moves from left to right through a word.
Guanano is an SOV language.
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Person Exclusive | /yɨɨ́/ [yɨˈʔɨ] "I" | /sã́/ [ˈsã] "we (and not you)" |
| 1st Person Inclusive | /bãrĩ́/ [mãˈňĩ] "we (and you)" | |
| 2nd Person | /bɨ̃ɨ̃́/ [mɨ̃ˈʔɨ̃] "you" | /bɨ̃sã́/ [mɨ̃ɨ̥̃ˈsã] "you" |
| 3rd Person Masculine | /tíro/ [ˈtiro] "he" | /tídã/ [ˈtinã] "they" |
| 3rd Person Feminine | /tí-koro/ [ˈtikoro] "she" |