Yarumá is an extinct and poorly attested

Cariban language The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to northeastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spoken in small pockets ...

. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Arara branch, as does Gildea (1998). According to Carvalho (2020), Yarumá forms part of the ''Kampot dialect cluster'' along with

Ikpeng The Ikpeng (also known as Txikāo) are an indigenous community that now lives in the Xingu Indigenous Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil. They had a population of 459 in 2010, up from a low of 50 in 1969. Name The Ikpeng are also called Txicão, Txikão ...

, Apiaká do Tocantins, Parirí, and Arára.Carvalho, Fernando O. de (2020)
Tocantins Apiaká, Parirí and Yarumá as Members of the Pekodian Branch (Cariban)
''Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas - RBLI''. Macapá, v. 3, n. 1, p. 85-93, 2020.

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