List of articles in "Language" category - Page 383

Berik is a Papuan language spoken in eastern Papua. Speakers are located in four village groups on the Tor river towards the northern coast of Indonesian-controlled Irian Jaya. US linguist […]

Tawasa is an extinct Native American language. Ostensibly the language of the Tawasa people of what is now Alabama it is known exclusively through a word list attributed to a […]

Gamela (Gamella) AKA Curinsi or Acobu is an unclassified and presumably extinct language of Brazil. Kaufman (1994) said that ‘only Gr[eenberg] dares to classify this language’ due to the lack […]

Umotína is a recently extinct language of Brazil. It was one of the few languages in the world with linguolabial consonants.

Jeikó (Jeicó Jaiko Yeico Geico Eyco) is an extinct language of Brazil. Based on a fragmentary word list from the 19th century it would appear to be a Je language.

Kukurá (Cucurá Kokura) is a spurious language fabricated by an interpreter in Brazil.When Alberto Vojtěch Frič visited Rio Verde Brazil in 1901 he took with him a Kainguá Indian called […]

The extinct Palta language of the Ecuadorian Amazon is attested by only a few words: yumé ‘water’ xeme ‘maize’ capal ‘fire’ let ‘wood’ (Jiménez de la Espada 1586) and some […]

Warndarang (also spelled Wandarang Wandaran) is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language in the Arnhem family formerly spoken in southern Arnhem Land along the Gulf of Carpentaria. The last speaker was […]

Taíno an Arawakan language was the principal language of the Caribbean islands at the time of the Spanish Conquest including the Bahamas Cuba Hispaniola Jamaica Puerto Rico the Florida Keys […]