Curripaco language

Curripako
Kurripako
Native to	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil
Ethnicity	Baniwa
Native speakers	12,000 (2008–2012) [1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazon Eastern Nawiki Karu Curripako
Dialects	Ipeka-Tapuia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kpc
Glottolog	curr1243
ELP	Curripaco

Curripako (Curripaco, Kurripako, Ipeka-Tapuia-Curripako) is an Arawakan language principally of Colombia and Venezuela. There are also a thousand speakers in Brazil.

Curripako is quite close to Baniwa (Karu), and Aikhenvald (1999) considers them to be dialects. (Kaufman (1994) calls Baniwa–Curripako "Karu".) Various dialects of both Baniwa and Curripaco are called Tapuya. All are spoken by the Baniwa people.

References

1. Curripako at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)