Cumana (Kumaná) is a possibly extinct
Chapacuran language
The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. Almost all Chapacuran languages are extinct, and the four that are extant are moribund. They are spoken in Rondônia in the southern Amazon Basin of ...
. Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell (2012)
are Torá, Toraz (distinguish
Torá language
Torá (Toraz) is an extinct Chapacuran language that was once spoken along the lower stretches of the Marmelos River in Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in b ...
), and Cautario, the last perhaps after the local river, and Abitana-Kumaná (distinguish
Abitana dialect).
In addition, there is a Chapacuran language called Kujubim (Kuyubí, Cojubím), which may still be spoken. The endonym, ''Kaw To Yo'' (or ''Kaw Tayó'', which means 'eaters of
payara
The payara, ''Hydrolycus scomberoides'', is a species of dogtooth tetra. This predatory fish is found in the Amazon Basin in tropical South America.SeriouslyFish: Hydrolycus scomberoides.' Retrieved 31 October 2015. It was the first of four sp ...
fish'), may be the source of the river and language name
Cautario.
Sources which list one do not list the other, so these may be the same language.
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Vocabulary
Conjubim vocabulary from Sampaio & da Silva (2011):
:
A word list with 793 lexical items is also available from Rodrigues Duran (2000).[Rodrigues Duran, Iris. 2000. ]
Descrição fonológica e lexical do dialeto "Kaw Tayo" (Kujubi) da língua Moré
'. M.A. thesis, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (Guajará-Mirim).
PDF
Bibliography
*Duran, Iris Rodrigues. 2000. ''Descrição fonológica e lexical do dialeto Kaw Tayo (Kujubi) da língua Moré''. MA thesis, Guajará-Mirim: Universidade Federal de Rondônia; 136pp.
*Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. 1997. vDocumentação da língua Kuyubi: Arquivos acústicos''. Guajará-Mirim: UNIR Working Papers in Amerindian Linguistics. Série 'Documentos de Trabalho'.
*Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. and Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. 1997. ''Léxico Português-Kuyubi e Kuyubi-Português''. Guajará-Mirim: UNIR Working Papers in Amerindian Linguistics.
References
{{Chapacuran languages
Chapacuran languages