Amarizana language

Amarizana
Amarizana
Amarizama
Native to	Colombia
Region	Meta Department
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Arawakan Northern Upper Amazonian (unclassified) Amarizana; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None; acha1250 Achagua (sources cited there)

Amarizana (Amarizama) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language. It is attested in two wordlists from the 19th century.²³

Classification

Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Piapoko branch,⁴ but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).⁵

References

Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages, 2 edn., 65-67. London, New York: Routledge.
Ustáriz, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y (1857). Coleccion de memorias cientificas, agricolas é industriales publicadas en distintas épocas (in Spanish). H. Goemaere. p. 91.
Ernst, A. (1891). "Ueber einige weniger bekannte Sprachen aus der Gegend des Meta und oberen Orinoco". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 23: 9. ISSN 0044-2666.
Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
Dixon, R. M. W., ed. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.

[1] Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages, 2 edn., 65-67. London, New York: Routledge.

[2] Ustáriz, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y (1857). Coleccion de memorias cientificas, agricolas é industriales publicadas en distintas épocas (in Spanish). H. Goemaere. p. 91.

[3] Ernst, A. (1891). "Ueber einige weniger bekannte Sprachen aus der Gegend des Meta und oberen Orinoco". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 23: 9. ISSN 0044-2666.

[4] Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.

[5] Dixon, R. M. W., ed. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.

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