Caramanta language

Caramanta
Native toColombia
RegionAntioquia Department
EthnicityCaramanta
Eraattested c. 1940s
Chocoan
Language codes
ISO 639-3crf
Glottologcara1271

Caramanta is an extinct Chocoan language of Colombia, documented solely through a wordlist from the 1940s,[1] and in an ethnographic publication from 1954.[2] It is sometimes described as a dialect of Anserma.[3]

Vocabulary

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Numerals

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Numeral Caramanta
1 aba
2 ome
3 umpea
4 quimane
5 juasoma

References

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  1. ^ a b Arcila Velez, Graciliano (1946). "Los Caramanta". Revista Universidad de Antioquia. XX: 445–452.
  2. ^ Daniel, H. (1954). "Apuntes etnológicos: Los Caramantas". Boletin del Instituto de Antropología. 1 (2): 171–180.
  3. ^ Caramanta at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon