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Yurumanguí is an extinct language that was spoken along the Yurumanguí River of
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. It is known only through a short list of words and phrases recorded by Father Christoval Romero and given by him to Captain Sebastián Lanchas de Estrada, who included them in the report of his travels of 1768. Thereafter the language and its speakers disappear from the historical record. Father Romero's word list was discovered in the archives and published, with analysis and commentary, by Rivet (1942), who argued that the language was a member of the Hokan language family. This claim is considered poor and unconvincing; a critique is given by Poser (1992). Swadesh (1963) saw connections with Opaye and Chamicura (Maipurean). Adelaar notes similarities with Esmeralda (Takame). However, it is generally considered unclassifiable due to the paucity of data.


Varieties

Loukotka (1968) included a number of purported languages from the same region in a Yurimangui stock in his language classification. These are ''Timba, Lili'' (at
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), ''Yolo/Paripazo, Jamundi,'' and ''Puscajae/Pile.'' However, he notes that nothing is known of any of them. Their locations were: *Timba - Canambre River *Lili - around
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*Yolo (Paripazo) - San Joaquín River *Jamundi - Cauca River *Puscajae (Pile) - left bank of the Dagila River


Vocabulary

Below are selected entries from the 1768 Yurumanguí vocabulary given in Ortiz (1946), with original Spanish glosses and translated English glosses.Ortiz, Sergio Elias (1946) Los Indios Yurumanguíes. ''Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades'' XXXII.731-748.


Bibliography

* Loukotka, Čestmír (1968) ''Classification of South American Indian Languages''. University of California, Los Angeles. *Ortiz, Sergio Elias (1946) Los Indios Yurumanguíes. ''Boletín de Historia y Antigüedades'' XXXII.731-748. * Poser, William J. (1992) The Salinan and Yurumanguí Data in ''Language in the Americas''. ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 58.2.202-22
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* Rivet, Paul (1942) Un dialecte Hoka Colombien: le Yurumangí. ''Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris'' 34.1-59.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yurumangui language Extinct languages of South America Language isolates of South America Languages of Colombia Indigenous languages of the Americas Languages attested from the 18th century