Ramanos language

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Ramanos
Native to Bolivia
Region Moxos Province
Eraattested ca. 1790
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog rama1271

Ramanos is a poorly attested extinct language of what is now Bolivia. Glottolog concludes that "the minuscule wordlist ... shows no convincing resemblances to surrounding languages". [2]

Vocabulary

Ramanos word list from the late 1700s published in Palau and Saiz (1989): [3] :169

Spanish glossEnglish glossRamanos
buenogoodesumatá
malobademayio
el padrefathertatá
la madremothernaná
el hermanobrothernochoine
unooneeapurava
dostwocasevava
tresthreequimisa

References

  1. "Glottolog 5.2 - Ramanos". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Ramanos". Glottolog 4.3.
  3. Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz. 1989. Moxos: Descripciones exactas e historia fiel de los indios, animales y plantas de la provincia de Moxos en el virreinato del Perú por Lázaro de Ribera, 1786-1794. Madrid: El Viso.