Yumana language

Jumana
Yumana
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Eraattested c. 1810s
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qtl
Glottologjuma1250

Yumana (Jumana, Xomana, Ximana[1]) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. It is attested only in a wordlist from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Johann Baptist von Spix published in 1867.[2]

Classification

Kaufman (1994)[3] placed it in his Río Negro branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).[4] It is grouped with Pasé in the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).[5]

References

  1. ^Ramirez, Henri (2020). Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados. Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Curitiba: Editora CRV. doi:10.24824/978655578892.1. ISBN 978-65-5578-892-1.
  2. ^"Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens (Martius 1867) - Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú". www.etnolinguistica.org. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  3. ^Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London; New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5
  4. ^Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (2006). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (Digitally printed 1st pbk. version ed.). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57893-6.
  5. ^Ramirez, Henri; França, Maria Cristina Victorino de (2019-09-23). "Línguas Arawak da Bolívia". LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas. 19: e019012. doi:10.20396/liames.v19i0.8655045. ISSN 2177-7160.