Amarizana language

Amarizana
Amarizama
Native toColombia
RegionMeta Department
Extinctafter 1824
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
acha1250  Achagua (sources cited there)

Amarizana (Amarizama) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. It is attested in a wordlist from 1824.

Classification

Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Piapoko branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).

References

  1. ↑ Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages, 2 edn., 65-67. London, New York: Routledge.
  2. ↑ Ustáriz, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y (1857). Coleccion de memorias cientificas, agricolas é industriales publicadas en distintas épocas (in Spanish). H. Goemaere. p. 91.
  3. ↑ Ernst, A. (1891). "Ueber einige weniger bekannte Sprachen aus der Gegend des Meta und oberen Orinoco". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 23: 9. ISSN 0044-2666.
  4. ↑ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
  5. ↑ Dixon, R. M. W., ed. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.