Caramanta language

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Caramanta
Native to Colombia
Region Antioquia Department
EthnicityCaramanta
Eraattested c. 1940s
Chocoan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 crf
Glottolog cara1271

Caramanta is an extinct Chocoan language of Colombia, documented solely through a wordlist from the 1940s, [1] and in an ethnographic publication from 1954. [2] It is sometimes described as a dialect of Anserma. [3]

Contents

Vocabulary

Numerals

The following table compares Caramanta words with other Chocoan languages.

[1] [4] [5] [6] [7]
NumeralCaramanta Northern Emberá Catío Embera Wounaan Anserma (Umbra)
1aba'aɓaábaãbomb̃e
2omeu'meuménumíumbẽã
3umpeaũ'beaũbéatʰãřhũpkimãri
4quimanekĩ'mãrĩkʰimárẽhayapís̄kal
5juasomahueso'mawesomá ~ huwua 'one hand'hua-ʔãbsõ

References

  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.
  3. ↑ Caramanta at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  4. ↑ "IDS - Embera". ids.clld.org. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
  5. ↑ https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/76113
  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.


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