Esmeralda language

Esmeralda
Esmeraldeño
Spoken in Venezuela
Extinct ?
Language family
Esmeralda–Yaruro ?
  • Esmeralda
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List 0ip

Esmeralda or Esmeraldeño, also called Takame, Atacame) is an indigenous language once spoken in the Orinoco watershed of Venezuela. It is not well attested; it may be an isolate, or distantly related to the still-spoken Yaruro language.