sound may also be pronounced as a back sound. Other sounds, are found in Spanish loans. Syntax Ticuna displays nominative/accusative alignment, with person, number, noun class, and clause type indexed on the verb via proclitics. Transitive and unergative verbs tend to favor an Subject-(Object)-Verb word order, while unaccusative verbs show a preference for Verb-Subject word order. Common words The counting words in Ticuna imply a base five system of counting as the word for five is the combination of "one five". Six through nine all contain the same beginning "naixmixwa rü" and then append the values for one through four respectively (such that six is "naixmixwa rü" and "wüxi" meaning one). Examples of spoken language An example of spoken Ticuna can be found here. Vocabulary (Loukotka 1968) Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items. References 1. https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/15471 External links "Conversational Tikuna" – Ticuna course and grammar at the Summer Institute of Linguistics Ticuna publications for download OLAC resources in and about the Ticuna language Ticuna (tca) language documentation: A guide to materials in the California Language Archive (Skilton 2021) Ticuna–Yuri languages Indigenous languages of Western Amazonia Languages of Peru Languages of Colombia Languages of Brazil Tonal languages Isolating languages Subject–verb–object languages hr:Tucuna it:Ticuna