Yukpa language
Yukpa | |
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Native to | Venezuela, Colombia |
Ethnicity | Yukpa people |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2007–2009)[1] |
Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yup |
Glottolog | yukp1241 |
ELP | Yukpa |
Yukpa (Yuco, Yucpa, Yuko, Yupa) is a Cariban language, spoken by 7,000–8,000 people in Zulia State in Venezuela and across the border in Colombia. It's also known as Carib Motilón, Macoíta, Northern Motilón, Manso.
Río Casacará (Iroka) and Río Maracas are the main dialects, and different enough to maybe be considered separate languages. Also Caño Padilla–La Laguna. The Venezuelan dialects, Yrapa and Río Negro, are closer to Río Maracas than to Río Casacará.
Similarity to Japrería, the other Yupka language, is slight.
References[]
- ^ Yukpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
External links[]
- "First Observations on the Yukpa Language" (PDF) (in Spanish).
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Categories:
- Indigenous languages of the South American Northwest
- Cariban languages
- Languages of Venezuela
- Languages of Colombia
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs