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Yarumá language

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Yarumá
Native toBrazil
RegionXingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso
Extinct(date missing)
Cariban
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
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Glottologyaru1255

Yarumá is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language. Kaufman (2007)[1] placed it in his Arara branch, as does Gildea (1998).[2]

According to Carvalho (2020), Yarumá forms part of the Kampot dialect cluster along with Ikpeng, Apiaká do Tocantins, Parirí, and Arára.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Kaufman, Terrence (2007). "South America". In Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher (eds.). Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 59–94. ISBN 978-0-415-31074-1.
  2. ^ Gildea, Spike (1998). On reconstructing grammar: comparative Cariban morphosyntax. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510952-8.
  3. ^ 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.