- Zamucoan languages
Infobox Language family
name=Zamucoan
altname=Samúkoan
region=Paraguay andBolivia
familycolor=American
family=Zamucoan
child1="Ayoreo"
child2="Chamacoco"Zamucoan (also Samúkoan) is a small
language family ofParaguay (northeastChaco ) andBolivia (Santa Cruz Department ).The family has hardly been studied by linguists (as of Adelaar & Muysken 2004).
Family division
Zamucoan consists of 2 languages:
: 1. Ayoreo (a.k.a. Zamuco, Ayoré, Moro, Ayoréo, Ayoweo, Samuko, Morotoco, Pyeta, Yovai): 2. Chamacoco (a.k.a. Bahía Negra, Ebidoso, Tumarahá, Chamakoko, Ebitoso, Ishiro, Jeywo)
Chamacoco is a seriously
endangered language . It consists of two dialects: Bahía Negra and Bravo.Genetic relations
External links
* Ethnologue: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=92847 Zamucoan]
* Proel: [http://www.proel.org/mundo/samukoan.htm Familia Zamucoana]Bibliography
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* Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the world" (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
* Fabre, Alain. (por aparecer, 2005). Los pueblos del Gran Chaco y sus lenguas, cuarta parte: Los zamuco. "Suplemento Antropológico", Asunción.
* Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), "Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages" (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
* Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), "Atlas of the world's languages" (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
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