Curripaco language
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (June 2025) |
Curripako | |
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Kurripako | |
Native to | Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil |
Ethnicity | Baniwa |
Native speakers | 12,000 (2008–2012)[1] |
Arawakan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kpc |
Glottolog | curr1243 |
ELP | Curripaco |
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
[edit]- ^ Curripako at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)