Curripaco language

Curripako
Kurripako
Native toColombia, Venezuela, Brazil
EthnicityBaniwa
Native speakers
12,000 (2008–2012)[1]
Arawakan
Dialects
  • Ipeka-Tapuia
Language codes
ISO 639-3kpc
Glottologcurr1243
ELPCurripaco

Curripako (Curripaco, Kurripako, Ipeka-Tapuia-Curripako) is an Arawakan language principally of Colombia and Venezuela. There are also a thousand speakers in Brazil.

Curripako is quite close to Baniwa (Karu), and Aikhenvald (1999) considers them to be dialects. (Kaufman (1994) calls Baniwa–Curripako "Karu".) Various dialects of both Baniwa and Curripaco are called Tapuya. All are spoken by the Baniwa people.

References

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  1. ^ Curripako at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon