Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages

Language Names:  Tunayana (also Katuena)

Classification:        Cariban

Comments:              Severely endangered, not being transmitted to
next generation.

Language Use:       Most or all speak Trió as a second language.

Population:             A few dozen

Region:                  On the Sipaliwini River in Kwamalasamutu, Southwestern
Suriname

The following sources will provide additional information on Tunayana:

• Carlin, E. and K. Boven, 2002. 'The native population'.  In Carlin, E. andJ. Arends (eds). Atlas of the Languages of Suriname.  Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers

• Carlin, E. 2002, 'Patterns of language, patterns of thought: The Cariban  languages'. In Carlin, E. and J. Arends (eds). Atlas of the
  Languages of Suriname.  Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers

For a review essay on Atlas of the Languages of Suriname by Janette Bulkan Forte.  The same article is available  in pdf format below.