Caramanta language

Caramanta
Caramanta
Native to	Colombia
Region	Antioquia Department
Ethnicity	Caramanta
Era	attested c. 1940s
Language family	Chocoan (unclassified) Anserma Caramanta; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	crf
Glottolog	cara1271

Caramanta is an extinct Chocoan language of Colombia, documented solely through a wordlist from the 1940s, and in an ethnographic publication from 1954. It is sometimes described as a dialect of Anserma.

Vocabulary

Numerals

The following table compares Caramanta words with other Chocoan languages.


Numeral	Caramanta	Northern Emberá	Catío Embera	Wounaan	Anserma (Umbra)
1	aba	'aɓa	ába	ãb	omb̃e
2	ome	u'me	umé	numí	umbẽã
3	umpea	ũ'bea	ũbéa	tʰãřhũp	kimãri
4	quimane	kĩ'mãrĩ	kʰimárẽ	hayap	ís̄kal
5	juasoma	hueso'ma	wesomá ~ huwua 'one hand'	hua-ʔãb	sõ

References

1 2 Arcila Velez, Graciliano (1946). "Los Caramanta". Revista Universidad de Antioquia. XX: 445–452.
↑ Daniel, H. (1954). "Apuntes etnológicos: Los Caramantas". Boletin del Instituto de Antropología. 1 (2): 171–180.
↑ Caramanta at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ "IDS - Embera". ids.clld.org. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
↑ "Comparative Word List of Chocoan Languages". SIL Global. 15 September 2022.
↑ "Embera Catío". lingweb.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
↑ Rendón-García, Guillermo (2011). La lengua umbra: Descubrimiento- Endolingüística- Arqueolingüística. Manizales: Zapata-Molano-Londoño e hijos. p. 67. ISBN 978-958-57127-0-6.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Arcila Velez, Graciliano (1946). "Los Caramanta". Revista Universidad de Antioquia. XX: 445–452.

[2] Daniel, H. (1954). "Apuntes etnológicos: Los Caramantas". Boletin del Instituto de Antropología. 1 (2): 171–180.

[e25-3] Caramanta at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[4] "IDS - Embera". ids.clld.org. Retrieved 2025-06-22.

[5] "Comparative Word List of Chocoan Languages". SIL Global. 15 September 2022.

[6] "Embera Catío". lingweb.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 2025-06-22.

[7] Rendón-García, Guillermo (2011). La lengua umbra: Descubrimiento- Endolingüística- Arqueolingüística. Manizales: Zapata-Molano-Londoño e hijos. p. 67. ISBN 978-958-57127-0-6.