Pémono language
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Extinct Cariban language
Not to be confused with Pemon language.
| Pémono | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Extinct | after 2000 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pev |
| Glottolog | pemo1245 |
Pémono is a Cariban language or dialect of Mapoyo language that was spoken by only an eighty-year-old woman when discovered in 1998 in Venezuela. The ethnic population now speaks Spanish. It became extinct some time after that.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ Mattei-Muller, Marie-Claude (2003). "Pémono: eslabón perdido entre mapoyo y yawarana: lenguas caribes ergativas de la Guayana noroccidental de Venezuela" (PDF). Amérindia: revue d'ethnolinguistique amérindienne. 28: 33–54.
External links
[edit ]- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue ]
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