ELP ID
30645
ELP Language
Cocama-Cocamilla
Speaker Number
100-999
Children
0
Young Adults
0
Ethnic Population
20,000-25,000
Public Comment
"Perhaps the most reasonable calculation for today’s total Kokama population would be between 20,000
and 25,000, including people who no longer speak the language... only about 5% (an estimated 1,000 individuals) of the total population speaks the language; the majority have already shifted to Spanish."
Source
Integrating Language Documentation, Language Preservation, and Linguistic Research: Working with the Kokamas from the Amazon
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
~1,000
Speaker Number Range
100-999