Sapé language
| Sapé | |
|---|---|
| Kaliana | |
| Native to | Venezuela | 
| Region | Paragua and Karuna rivers | 
| Ethnicity | 28 (1992)[1] | 
| Native speakers | 5 (2007)[1] | 
| Arutani–Sape ?
 
 | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | spc | 
| Glottolog | sape1238[2] | 
Sapé AKA Kaliana is a nearly extinct language spoken along the Paragua and Karuna rivers. In 2008 a few elderly speakers were found. Sape is one of the most poorly attested extant languages in South America, and may be a language isolate. There is, however, no linguistic data on the language.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 Sapé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sapé". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183
- ↑ Dixon and Aikhenvald, 1999, The Amazonian Languages, p 343.
External links
- Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: SAPÉ.
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