Cumanagoto language
Itoto Majun | |
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Kumana, Chaima, Cumanagoto | |
itoto Majun | |
Pronunciation | [ʧ ͥoto majuŋ] |
Native to | Venezuela |
Ethnicity | Cumanagoto people |
Native speakers | 112 (2001 & 2011 censuses)[1] |
Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:cuo – Cumanaciy – Chaima |
Glottolog | coas1302 |
ELP | Chaima |
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Itoto Majun (Cumanogota, Cumaná, Kumaná), also Chaima (Chayma), Cumanagoto, Waikeri, Palank, Pariagoto or Tamanaku is an endangered Cariban language of eastern coastal Venezuela. It is the language of the Cumanagoto people and other nations. Extinct dialects include Palenque (presumably Palank), Piritu (Piritugoto), and Avaricoto.[2]
Notes
- ^ Cumana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Chaima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Gildea, Spike (1998). On reconstructing grammar: comparative Cariban morphosyntax. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510952-8.