Yurumanguí language
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Yurumanguí is an extinct language of Colombia
. It is known to us only through a short list of words and phrases recorded by Father Christoval Romero and given by him to Captain Sebastián Lanchas de Estrada, who included them in the report of his travels of 1768. Thereafter the language and its speakers disappear from the historical record.
Father Romero's wordlist was discovered in the archives and published, with analysis and commentary, by Rivet (1942), who argued that the language was a member of the Hokan language family
. This claim is considered poor and unconvincing; a critique is given by Poser (1992). Loukotka (1968) included it in Chibchan, and Swadesh (1963) saw connections with Opaye and Chamicura (Maipurean). However, it is generally considered unclassifiable due to the paucity of data.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
. It is known to us only through a short list of words and phrases recorded by Father Christoval Romero and given by him to Captain Sebastián Lanchas de Estrada, who included them in the report of his travels of 1768. Thereafter the language and its speakers disappear from the historical record.
Father Romero's wordlist was discovered in the archives and published, with analysis and commentary, by Rivet (1942), who argued that the language was a member of the Hokan language family
Hokan languages
The Hokan language family is a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona and Mexico. In nearly a century since Edward Sapir first proposed the "Hokan" hypothesis, little additional evidence has been found that these families were related to each other...
. This claim is considered poor and unconvincing; a critique is given by Poser (1992). Loukotka (1968) included it in Chibchan, and Swadesh (1963) saw connections with Opaye and Chamicura (Maipurean). However, it is generally considered unclassifiable due to the paucity of data.