Desano is an Eastern Tucanoan language spoken by about 3,000 people in northwestern of Brazil and southeastern Colombia. In particular, it is spoken along the Tiquié River, and also along the Papuri, Vaupés (Uaupés) and Negro rivers, which are run through the Vaupés Department in Colombia and the State of Amazonas in Brazil.
Desano is also known as Boleka, Desâna, Kusibi or Winá. It is closely related to Siriano, which is spoken in the same area.
In 2008 Wilson de Lima Silva, a linguist at the University of Utah, started a project to document and revitalize Desano. He worked with Desano teachers, community leaders and other community members in Brazil, and organized workshops to develop an orthography for the language, and to train people in language documentation.
They have produced written and recorded collections of stories, song, poems and other material, and in 2012 Silva published his PhD thesis, A descriptive grammar of Desano. There is also a translation of the New Testament from the Bible in Desano.
Other letters may be used in words borrowed from other languages.
Download an alphabet chart for Desano
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1583/LUK.11.DES
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.11.KJV
Information about Desano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desano_language
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s5016g
http://www.native-languages.org/desano.htm
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/des
Carapana, Cubeo, Desano, Guanano, Secoya, Siona (Colombian), Siona (Ecuadorian), Tucano, Tuyuca, Yurutí
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 02.04.24. Last modified: 02.04.24
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