Guahibo languages

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The Guahibo languages are a small indigenous South American language family that consists of five individual languages :

Guahibo (Spanish spelling: Guajibo, also: Sikuani) [guh] (approx. 34,000 speakers)
Cuiba (also: Cuiba-Wámonae) [cui] (approx. 2,800 speakers)
Guayabero [guo] (approx. 2,000 speakers)
Macaguán (also: Jitnʉ) [mbn] (approx. 1,000 speakers)
Playero [gob] (approx. 240 speakers)

(The language code according to ISO 639-3 is given in square brackets .)

These languages are mainly spoken in Colombia , but some of their distribution areas extend as far as Venezuela .

literature

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , Robert MW Dixon : Other small families and isolates. In: Robert MW Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 341-383.
Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 4th, updated and revised edition. JB Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02335-3 .
Riena W. Kondo ( literature list )

Web links

Ethnologue, Languages of the World (16th ed.): Guahiban (Sprachfamilie)