Native to Peru ISO 639-3 omu | Ethnicity Maina Glottolog omur1241 | |
Native speakers a few speakers or rememberers (2011) Language family unclassified
(Saparo–Yawan?) | ||
Omurano is an unclassified language from Peru. It is also known as Humurana, Roamaina, Numurana, Umurano, and Mayna. The language was presumed to have become extinct by 1958, but in 2011 a rememberer was found who knew some 20 words in Omurano; he claimed that there were still people who could speak it.
Tovar (1961) linked Omurano to Taushiro (and later Taushiro with Kandoshi); Kaufman (1994) finds the links reasonable, and in 2007 he classified Omurano and Taushiro (but not Kandoshi) as Saparo–Yawan languages.
Maynas, once mistaken for a synonym, is a separate language.
References
Omurano language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA