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The w:Tucano language is one of the three main languages spoken in the w:São Gabriel da Cachoeira municipality in w:Amazonia, w:Brazil, apart from the national language, w:Portuguese. It is also spoken natively in w:Colombia), and by several local communities as an L2 (having the status of a local trade w:Lingua Franca.
Along with w:Nheengatu and w:Baniwa, Tucano was recognized as a co-official language by the Brazilian State in 2002 (law nr. 145/2002 of 11 December). Although it has a relatively low number of speakers (est. 7000), there is a thriving interest in the development of educational resources and literature in Tucano by its native speaking community, along with a higher orthographic normalization.
As I am not myself a speaker of the language, my role here is solely that of facilitating the process of creating a Tucano Wikipedia in the first place, since some solid interest in its creation was shown. This proposal is being made in tandem with that of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Baniwa]], as it falls under the exact same conditions. The third language under the same conditions Nheengatu, already has its own http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Nheengatu. Pastorica 07:01, 2 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
In a few weeks' time, there will be a long summer school by the Federal University of the State of Amazonia, in its local São Gabriel da Cachoeira campus, which will have as attendants teachers that are native speakers of, among others, Tucano. This request for the creation of a Tucano Wikipedia comes in this context, as it will be the perfect opportunity to gather the local community of people with interest in creating, maintaining and using a Wikipedia for Educational and knowledge-building purposes. Both the organizers, teachers and member of the local community showed great interest in the possibility of having such a powerful tool at their disposal. Alongside with this, having a collaborative project like a Wikipedia would be the perfect means to attain common grounds for a more fixed spelling. Pastorica 07:01, 2 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
