Guanano (Wanano), or Piratapuyo, is a Tucanoan language spoken in the northwest part of Amazonas in Brazil and in Vaupés in Colombia.

[3] Wanano is a member of the Tucanoan language family, which is found in northwest Amazonia.

Boarding schools were set up in larger settlements like São Gabriel and students were sent to study there.

The first documentation of Wanano people came from naturalist Alfred Wallace during his 1852 expedition along the Vaupés River.

[9] Later in 1904, a German ethnologist Theodor Kock-Grünberg conducted research in the Wanano region.

[9] Something that has been noted by Stenzel in her research that is an important detail to include is the Wanano people are very multilingual.

[10] The first known work on the Wanano language was a grammatical outline recorded by a Salesian missionary named Antônio Giacone in 1967.

She has published a book on the grammar of Kotiria (Wanano) that discusses the morphology and syntax of the language (Stenzel 2015).

The project was coordinated by Dr. Kristine Stenzel and was a teaching workshop of Kotiria pedagogical grammar (Saltarelli 2014).

Wanano is a nominative accusative language with an SOV sentence structure that contains the following grammatical categories: nouns, verbs, particles, pronouns, and interrogatives.

[20]a’ri-roDEM:PROX-SGa’ri-roDEM:PROX-SGThis man [22]si-roDEM:PROX-SGsi-roDEM:PROX-SGThat man [23]~o-iDEIC:PROX-LOC~o-iDEIC:PROX-LOCHere [23]~so’o-pʉDEIC:DIST-LOC~so’o-pʉDEIC:DIST-LOCThere (distal) [23]to-pʉREM-LOCto-pʉREM-LOCThere (remote) [23]pa-iroother-NOM:SGpa-iroother-NOM:SGanother one [23]Gender coding of nouns is a morphological aspect discussed in the grammar of Wanano.

[24] The gender coding suffix -ko that appears at the end of the noun is feminine while -kʉ is masculine, for example phʉ-ko-ro (mother) and phʉ-kʉ-ro (father).

[26] Wanano is a nominative-accusative case system, this means that the subject of the transitive and intransitive verbs are marked the same way.

a’riDEM:PROXthu-reCLS:stacked-OBJhoa-hawrite-VIS.IMPERF.1~sa1PL:EXCkooti-ri-aWanano-NOM-PLa’ri thu-re hoa-ha ~sa kooti-ri-aDEM:PROX CLS:stacked-OBJ write-VIS.IMPERF.1 1PL:EXC Wanano-NOM-PLWe Wananos are writing this book.

[34]Wanano is typologically nominative-accusative, and that it codes the grammatical rather than the semantic roles of core arguments.

[39]ANPH:anaphoric PART:partitive case VIS:visual PERF:perfective aspect IMPERF:imperfective aspect INT:interrogative PROX:proximate DEIC:deictic REM:remote ASSERT:assertion CLS:classifier OBJ:object EXC:exclusive person NOM:nominalizer TMP:temporal IMPER:imperative PREDICT:predictive MOV:movement NON:non