Endangered Languages Project - Nukak

Nukak

^{[aka Nukak Makú, Maczsa, Guaviare]}

Classification: Kakua-Nukak

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Nukak Makú, Maczsa, Guaviare
CLASSIFICATION		Kakua-Nukak
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mbr
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Kakua and Nukak languages are related to each other, but not obviously to other languages. Formerly they were liked with the Nadehup (Nadahup, Makúan) languages, and all of these together sometimes joined with Puinave, called the Makú-Puinave family or Puinavean. Today, any relationship with Puinave remains undemonstrated, and evidence for linking Nedehup and Kakua-Nukak remains inconclusive (see Epps and Salanov 2013:16).

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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
390
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
390

PLACES: Colombia

Ethnic population
380
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Nukak and Kakua are sometimes considered the same language,
because they share a large percentage of their lexicon and supposedly are mutually intelligible.

PLACES: Colombia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: departments of Guaviare and Guainia, between the Guaviare River and the Upper Inirida.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
700
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2010

SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Positive
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: A few also use Spanish.

PLACES: Colombia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Jungle region between Guaviare and Inírida rivers, up to Mapiripan. Near Charco Caimán.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
400
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Garcia (2005).

PLACES: Colombia;

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press