Cumanagoto language

Cumanagoto
Kumana
Chaima
Native to Venezuela
Ethnicity Cumanagoto people
Native speakers
 112 (2001 & 2011 censuses)[1]
Cariban

  • Venezuelan Carib

    • Mapoyo–Tamanaku
      • Cumanagoto
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
cuo – Cumana
ciy – Chaima
Glottolog coas1302[2]

Cumanagoto (Cumanogota, Cumaná, Kumaná); also Chaima (Chayma) is a nearly extinct language of eastern coastal Venezuela. It was the language of the Cumanagoto people. Extinct dialects, or closely related languages, include Palenque (presumably Palank), Piritu, and Avaricoto (Guildea 1998).

Notes

  1. ↑ Cumana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Chaima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Coastal Venezuelan [Cariban]". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/22/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.