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Cumanagoto language information


Itoto Maimy
Kumana
Chaima
Native toVenezuela
EthnicityCumanagoto people
Native speakers
112 (2001 & 2011 censuses)[1]
Language family
Cariban
  • Venezuelan Carib
    • Mapoyo–Tamanaku
      • Itoto Maimy
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
cuo – Cumana
ciy – Chaima
Glottologcoas1302
ELPChaima

Itoto Maimy (Cumanogota, Cumaná, Kumaná); also Chaima (Chayma), Cumanagoto, Waikeri, Palank, Pariagoto or Tamanaku is an endangered Cariban language of eastern coastal Venezuela. It was the language of the Cumanagoto people and other nations. Extinct dialects include Palenque (presumably Palank), Piritu (Piritugoto), and Avaricoto (Guildea 1998).

  1. ^ Cumana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Chaima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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name arepa is related to erepa, the word for 'cornbread' in the Cumanagoto language. The arepa is a flat, round, unleavened patty of soaked, ground kernels...

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Chaima

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Tunisian weightlifter Chaima Trabelsi (born 1982), Tunisian racewalker Cumanagoto language, also known as Chaima Shayma This page or section lists people that...

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List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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('drink') maya mecate (Nahuatl mekatl) mesquite (Nāhuatl mizquitl) mico (Cumanagoto language) milpa (Nahuatl milpan) mixteco (Nahuatl mixtekatl) mole ('sauce'...

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Languages of Venezuela

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This language is spoken in the state of Zulia. Among the Caribbean languages that are now extinct, since the conquest, are the tamanaco, the cumanagoto and...

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Cariban languages

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Waiwai; Hixkaryana Venezolano branch Coastal group Tamanaku † Chayma † Cumanagoto † Pemongan group Pemong (Arekuna, etc.) Kapong (Akawaio, etc.) Makuxi...

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Apacuana

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Writer Emilio Salazar claims that the name Apakuama comes from the Cumanagoto language, meaning "beautiful mountain", and formed by the words apak ("mountain")...

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Chacao Municipality

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accident investigation agency, had its headquarters in Chacao. In Cumanagoto language Chakau (Chacao) means sand, the municipality was named after the...

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List of extinct languages of South America

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Charrúa Güenoa Anauyá Betoi Cumanagoto Mainatari Maipure Máku Otomaco Paraujano Tamanaku Taparita Yavitero Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin...

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Grammar book

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grammar book is a book or treatise describing the grammar of one or more languages. Such books are themselves frequently referred to as grammars. Ancient...

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List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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(definition) from Mapudungun deuñ, via Spanish. Divi-divi (definition) from Cumanagoto. Dory (definition) from Miskito dóri, dúri. Eulachon (definition) from...

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List of Indigenous peoples of South America

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Chaguan, Venezuela Chaima, Venezuela Cuaga, Venezuela Cuacua, Venezuela Cumanagoto, Venezuela Guayano, Venezuela Guinau (4N 65W) Hixkaryána, Amazonas, Brazil...

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Classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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Colombia Cuiba, east Colombia west Venezuela Cuica, western Venezuela Cumanagoto, eastern Venezuela Evéjito, western Colombia Fincenú, northwestern Colombia...

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Cagua

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known simply as Cagua. The origin of the name comes from the indigenous Cumanagoto word "Cahigua", which means snail. Cagua is located at 458 meters above...

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Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality

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Neverí in 1535, but resistance from native groups, among them being the Cumanagotos, caused the town to be abandoned one year later by the Spaniards. The...

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Aragua

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308 inhabitants. The name of the state comes from an indigenous word of Cumanagoto (Caribbean) origin, which is used to refer to the Chaguaramo, a type of...

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Sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis

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Bicentenario Xiv, Bicentenario Xv, Bicentenario Xvi, Caribe, Cayaurima, Cumanagoto, Gardenia, Gp-21, Gp-23, Jazmin, L-409, Manaure, Mara, Margarita 1, PDVSA...

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Venezuelan Paraguayans

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communities exist. The festival displays the arepa as an iconic dish of the Cumanagoto indigenous identity and culture (inhabitants of Panama, Colombia, and...

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Venezuela

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Wayúu, 7% Warao, 5% Kariña, 4% Pemón, 3% Piaroa, 3% Jivi, 3% Añu, 3% Cumanágoto, 2% Yukpa, 2% Chaima and 1% Yanomami; the remaining 9% consisted of other...

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