Amarizana language
Appearance
| Amarizana | |
|---|---|
| Amarizama | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Meta Department[1] |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Arawakan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qah | |
| Glottolog | None |
Amarizana (Amarizama) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. It is attested in two wordlists from the 19th century.[2][3]
Classification
[edit]Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Piapoko branch,[4] but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages, 2 edn., 65-67. London, New York: Routledge.
- ^ Ustáriz, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y (1857). Coleccion de memorias cientificas, agricolas é industriales publicadas en distintas épocas (in Spanish). H. Goemaere. p. 91.
- ^ Ernst, A. (1891). "Ueber einige weniger bekannte Sprachen aus der Gegend des Meta und oberen Orinoco". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 23: 9. ISSN 0044-2666.
- ^ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
- ^ Dixon, R. M. W., ed. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.