Zaparo languages
The Záparo languages (named after the single language Záparo ; English Zaparoan ) are an almost extinct indigenous South American language family that consists of seven individual languages (the ISO 639-3 code is given in square brackets ):
- Andoa [Anb] (extinct)
- Arabela [arl] (approx. 50 speakers)
- Aushiri [avs] (extinct)
- Cahuarano [cah] (approx. 5 speakers)
- Iquito [iqu] (approx. 35 speakers)
- Omurano [omu] (extinct)
- Záparo [zro] (practically extinct)
With the exception of Záparo, which was spoken in Ecuador , all of these languages are native to Peru .
Doris L. Payne considers a relationship between these languages and the Peba-Yagua languages to be possible.
literature
- Doris L. Payne: Evidence for a Yaguan-Zaparoan connection. In: Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Vol. 28, 1984, pp. 131-156.
- M. Catherine Peeke: Bosquejo gramatical del záparo. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, Quito 1991 ( grammatical sketch; ZIP-compressed PDF file ).
- Rolland G. Rich: Diccionario arabela-castellano. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, Lima 1999 ( dictionary with introductory grammatical sketch; ZIP-compressed PDF file ).
- Mary Ruth Wise: Small language families and isolates in Peru. In: RMW Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 307-340.