Yumana language

Extinct Arawakan language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yumana (Jumana, Xomana, Ximana[1]) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. It is attested only in a wordlist from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Johann Baptist von Spix published in 1867.[2]

NativetoBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Eraattested c.1810s
Arawakan
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Jumana
Yumana
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Eraattested c.1810s
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qtl
Glottologjuma1250
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Classification

Kaufman (1994)[3] placed it in his Río Negro branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).[4] It is grouped with Pasé in the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).[5]

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