Caquetio language

Caquetio
Native to	Venezuela, ABC islands
Ethnicity	Caquetio people
Extinct	1862, with the death of Nicolaas Pyclas.^[1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Ta-Arawakan Caquetio
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`arub1238` (Aruba)^[2]

Caquetio is an extinct Arawakan language of Venezuela. The Caquetio people lived along the shores of Lake Maracaibo and on the Dutch 'ABC' islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire.

References

↑ http://www.namaruba.org/_media/first-inhabitants.pdf
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Aruba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Venezuela

Official language	Spanish

Indigenous languages	Arutani Ayoman Barí Betoi Caquetio Carib Cuiba Gayon Guahibo Japreria Jirajara Kapóng Macushi Maku-Auari Mandawaca Mapoyo-Yabarana Mucuchí Nheengatu Ninam Panare Paraujano Pemon Piapoco Sapé Sikiana Tamanaku Timote Uwa Warao Warekena Wayuu Yaruro Ye'kuana Yukpa

Dialects of Spanish	Llanero Maracucho

Sign languages	Venezuelan Sign Language

Arawakan (Maipurean) languages

Northern

Caribbean

Palikuran

Wapishanan

Upper Amazon

Western Nawiki	Achawa Amarizana Anauyá Cabiyari (?) Cabre (?) Guarú Kawishana Mandawaca Mariaté Pasé Piapoco Resígaro (?) Warekena Waraikú (?) Wainumá Wiriná (?) Yabaâna (?) Yucuna Yumana

Eastern Nawiki	Baniwa Kurripako Tariana

Central Upper Amazon	Baré Baniwa of Guainia Guinao Maipure Marawá Yavitero

Manao	Kariaí Manao Shiriana (?)

Southern

Western	Chamicuro Yanesha'

Central Maipurean	Agavotaguerra (?) Custenau Paresí Saraveca Waura–Mehináku Yawalapití

Piro	Apurinã Iñapari Mashco Piro Piro Kanamaré

Bolivia–Parana	Baure Chané Enawené-Nawé (?) Lapachu Moxos Pauna Terêna

Campa	Asháninka Ashéninga Axininca Caquinte Machiguenga Nomatsiguenga Pucapucari

Unclassified

Macro-Arawakan

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