Cumanagoto language

Cumanagoto
Cumanagoto
Kumana, Chaima
itoto Majun
Pronunciation	[ʧ ͥoto majuŋ]
Native to	Venezuela
Ethnicity	Cumanagoto people
Extinct	(date missing); 112 (2001 & 2011 censuses)
Language family	Cariban Venezuelan Carib Mapoyo–Tamanaku Cumanagoto; ; ;
Dialects	Avarigoto; Palenque; Piritugoto;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; cuo – Cumana; ciy – Chaima
Glottolog	coas1302
ELP	Chaima

Cumanagoto (Cumanogota, Cumaná, Kumaná), also Chaima (Chayma), Itoto Majun, Palank, Pariagoto or Tamanaku is an extinct Cariban language of eastern coastal Venezuela. It is the language of the Cumanagoto people and other nations. Extinct dialects include Palenque (presumably Palank), Piritu (Piritugoto), and Avaricoto.^[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Cumanagoto consonants^[3]
	Bilabial	Coronal	Velar
Occlusive	p	t	k
Nasal	m	n
Vibrant		ɺ ⟨r⟩
Fricative		s
Semiconsonant	w	j ⟨y⟩

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ ⟨ü⟩	u
Mid	e	ə ⟨ö⟩	o
Low		a

Notes

^ Cumana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Gildea, Spike (1998). On reconstructing grammar: comparative Cariban morphosyntax. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510952-8.
^ Álvarez, José (2018). Kure mana choto maimuru (Nuestra lengua está viva) (in Spanish and Cumanagoto). Universidad del Zulia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[e18-1] Cumana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Gildea, Spike (1998). On reconstructing grammar: comparative Cariban morphosyntax. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510952-8.

[3] Álvarez, José (2018). Kure mana choto maimuru (Nuestra lengua está viva) (in Spanish and Cumanagoto). Universidad del Zulia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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