Mapoyo-Yabarana language
| Mapoyo | |
|---|---|
| Mapoyo–Yavarana | |
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Region | Suapure River |
| Ethnicity | 520 Mapoyo & Yabarana (2007)[1] |
| Extinct | Last speaker of Pemono after 1998. A few semi-speakers of Mapoyo proper (2007), 20 Yabarana (1977)[1] |
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Carib
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Variously: mcg – Mapoyo yar – Yabarana pev – Pémono |
| Glottolog |
mapo1245[2] |
Mapoyo, or Mapoyo–Yavarana, is a Carib language spoken along the Suapure and Parguaza Rivers, Venezuela. The ethnic population of Mapoyo proper is about 365. Yabarana dialect is perhaps extinct; 20 speakers were known in 1977.[1] An additional dialect, Pémono,[3] was discovered in 1998. It was spoken by an 80-year-old woman and has since gone extinct.
References
- 1 2 3 Mapoyo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yabarana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Pémono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mapoyo–Yawarana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Not the same as Pemon
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