Tags: Language.
Maipure (Maypure Mejepure) once spoken along the Ventuari Sipapo and Autana rivers (Amazon) and as a lingua franca in the Upper Orinoco region became extinct around the end of the eighteenth century. Zamponi (2003) is a grammatical sketch of the language furnished with a classified word list based on all its extant available eighteenth century material (mainly from the Italian missionary Filippo S. Gilij).