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Mapoyo or Mapoyo–Yavarana is a Carib language spoken along the Suapure and Parguaza Rivers Venezuela. The ethnic population of Mapoyo proper is about 365. Yabarana dialect is perhaps extinct; 20 speakers were known in 1977. An additional dialect Pémono was discovered in 1998. It was spoken by an 80-year-old woman and has since gone extinct.