Caquetio language
Caquetio | |
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Native to | Venezuela, ABC islands |
Ethnicity | Caquetio people |
Extinct | 1862, with the death of Nicolaas Pyclas.[1] |
Arawakan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | arub1238 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[]
- ^ "The First Inhabitants of Aruba" (PDF). The National Archaeological Museum Aruba. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
Categories:
- Arawakan languages
- Languages of Venezuela
- Languages of the Netherlands
- Languages extinct in the 1860s
- Indigenous languages of the Caribbean
- Languages of Aruba
- Languages of Bonaire
- Languages of Curaçao
- Arawakan language stubs