Caquetio language

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Caquetio
Native toVenezuela, ABC islands
EthnicityCaquetio people
Extinct1862, with the death of Nicolaas Pyclas.[1]
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Ta-Arawakan
      • Caquetio
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologarub1238  Caquetio

Caquetio is an extinct Arawakan language of Venezuela. The Caquetio people lived along the shores of Lake Maracaibo and on the Dutch 'ABC' islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire.

References[]

  1. ^ "The First Inhabitants of Aruba" (PDF). The National Archaeological Museum Aruba. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2014-12-26.


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