Curripaco language
Arawakan language
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Curripako (Curripaco, Kurripako, Ipeka-Tapuia-Curripako) is an Arawakan language principally of Colombia and Venezuela.[2] There are also a thousand speakers in Brazil.
EthnicityBaniwa
Native speakers
12,000 (2008–2012)[1]Arawakan
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Northern
- Upper Amazon
- Eastern Nawiki
- Karu
- Curripako
- Karu
- Eastern Nawiki
- Upper Amazon
Curripako is quite close to Baniwa (Karu), and Aikhenvald (1999)[3] considers them to be dialects. (Kaufman (1994) calls Baniwa–Curripako "Karu".[4]) Various dialects of both Baniwa and Curripaco are called Tapuya. All are spoken by the Baniwa people.
