Cumana language

Cumana (Kumaná) is a possibly extinct Chapacuran language. Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell (2012)[3] are Torá, Toraz (distinguish Torá language), and Cautario, the last perhaps after the local river, and Abitana-Kumaná (distinguish Abitana dialect).

Cumana
Kujubim
RegionSouthwestern Rondônia, Bolivia–Brazil border area
Native speakers
perhaps 3 (2001)[1]
Chapacuran
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Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
ite-kum Abitana-Kumaná
 1a6 Kuyubí
Glottologkuyu1236  Kuyubi[2]

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.[4]

References
  1. "Kuyubí" in Moseley (2004) Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kuyubi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 9783110255133.
  4. Fabre (2005)


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