Yaruro language

Yaruro
Pumé
Region	Venezuela
Ethnicity	Yaruro people
Native speakers	7,900 (2001 census)^[1]
Language family	Esmeralda–Yaruro ? Yaruro
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`yae`
Glottolog	`pume1238`^[2]

The Yaruro language (also spelled Llaruro or Yaruru; also called Yuapín or Pumé) is an indigenous language spoken by Yaruro people, along the Orinoco, Sinaruco, Meta, and Apure rivers of Venezuela. It is not well classified; it may be an isolate, or distantly related to the extinct Esmeralda language.

Notes

↑ Yaruro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pumé". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Venezuela

Official language	Spanish

Indigenous languages	Mapoyo-Yabarana Panare Pemon Puinave Sapé Sikiana Warao Wayuu Yaruro

Dialects of Spanish	Llanero Maracucho

Sign languages	Venezuelan Sign Language

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