Guamo language

Guamo
Guamotey
Native to	Venezuela
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Guamo–Chapakuran? Guamo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Linguist list	`qax` San José dialect
	`qao` Santa Rosa dialect
Glottolog	`guam1236`^[1]

Guamo AKA Wamo or Guamotey, is an extinct language of Venezuela. Kaufman (1990) finds a connection with the Chapacuran languages convincing.

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guamo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bibliography

Kaufman, Terrence (1990). "Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more". In David L. Payne. Amazonian Linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press.

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