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Classification: Arawakan
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Paraene, Yavitano |
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Arawakan, Northern Arawakan, Upper Amazon |
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ISO 639-3 |
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Information from: “Oraciones condicionales en baniva y yavitero (arahuacas)” ( ch. Oraciones condicionales en baniva y yavitero (arahuacas)) . Álvarez, José (2005)
Information from: “Oraciones condicionales en baniva y yavitero (arahuacas)” ( ch. Oraciones condicionales en baniva y yavitero (arahuacas)) . Álvarez, José (2005)
Extinct
Spanish
Hablada anteriormente en pequeñas poblaciones de la cuenca del río Atabapo.
[Formerly spoken in small towns in the Atabapo River Basin.]
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
1 speaker
"Amazonas State, Yavita region."
Information from: “LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)” . Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie (2012)
Information from: “South America” (103-196) . Mily Crevels (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
The Yavitero language is practically extinct with only one known elderly female speaker (Mosonyi & Mosonyi 2000).
Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
Yavitero is possibly extinct with only one known elderly female speaker earlier (Mosonyi and Mosonyi 2000). It is not clear how many persons are still left in the ethnic group, which suffered from violent extermination practices in the 1930s.