Cumana (Kumaná) is a possibly extinct

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. Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell (2012) are Torá, Toraz (distinguish

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), 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

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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.Fabre (2005)
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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).
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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

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