Guamo language

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Guamo
Guamotey
Native to Venezuela
Extinct (date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Linguist list
qax San José dialect
  qao Santa Rosa dialect
Glottolog guam1236[1]

Guamo AKA Wamo or Guamotey, is an extinct language of Venezuela. Kaufman (1990) finds a connection with the Chapacuran languages convincing.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guamo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 

Bibliography[edit]

  • Kaufman, Terrence (1990). "Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more". In David L. Payne. Amazonian Linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press.