Cumana language

Cumana
Kujubim
Region Southwestern Rondônia, Bolivia–Brazil border area
Native speakers
 perhaps 3 (2001)[1]
Chapacuran

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Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Linguist list
 ite-kum Abitana-Kumaná
  1a6 Kuyubí
Glottolog kuyu1236  (Kuyubi)[2]

Cumana (Kumaná) is a possibly extinct Chapacuran language. Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell & Grondona (2012) are Torá, Toraz (distinguish Torá language), and Cautario, the last perhaps after the local river, and Abitana-Kumaná (distinguish Abitana dialect).

In addition, there is a Chapacuran language called Kujubim (Kuyubí, Cojubím), which may still be spoken. The endonym, Kaw To Yo (Kaw Tayó), may be the source of the river and language name Cautario.[1] Sources which list one do not list the other, so these may be the same language.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Kuyubí" in Moseley (2004) Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kuyubi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Fabre (2005)


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