Native to Venezuela | Region Suapure River | |
Ethnicity 520 Mapoyo & Yabarana (2007) Extinct Last speaker of Pemono after 1998. A few semi-speakers of Mapoyo proper (2007), 20 Yabarana (1977) Language family Carib
Venezuelan Carib
Mapoyo–Tamanaku
Mapoyo ISO 639-3 Variously:
mcg – Mapoyo
yar – Yabarana
pev – Pémono | ||
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. An additional dialect, Pémono, was discovered in 1998. It was spoken by an 80-year-old woman and has since gone extinct.
References
Mapoyo-Yabarana language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA