Sapará language

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Sapará
Zapara
Native toBrazil
RegionRoraima
Extinctlate 20th century
Cariban
  • Paravilyana
    • Sapará
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qn4
Glottologsapa1254

Sapará (Zapara) is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language. Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Paravilhana branch.[1][2] It was still spoken in 1968.[3]

References

  1. Gildea, Spike (2003). "Proposing a new branch for the Cariban language family" (PDF). Amerindia. 28.
  2. Kaufman, Terrence (2007). "South America". In Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher (eds.). Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 59–94. ISBN 978-0-415-31074-1.
  3. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.