Cumana language

Cumana
	Kujubim
Region	Southwestern Rondônia, Bolivia–Brazil border area
Native speakers	perhaps 3 (2001)[1]
Language family	Chapacuran More Cumana; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	ite-kum Abitana-Kumaná
	1a6 Kuyubí
Glottolog	kuyu1236 Kuyubi[2]

Cumana (Kumaná) is a possibly extinct Chapacuran language. Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell & Grondona (2012) are Torá, Toraz (distinguish Torá language), and Cautario, the last perhaps after the local river, and Abitana-Kumaná (distinguish Abitana dialect).

In addition, there is a Chapacuran language called Kujubim (Kuyubí, Cojubím), which may still be spoken. The endonym, Kaw To Yo (Kaw Tayó), may be the source of the river and language name Cautario.^[1] Sources which list one do not list the other, so these may be the same language.^[3]

References

1 2 "Kuyubí" in Moseley (2004) Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kuyubi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Fabre (2005)

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[Moseley-1] 1 2 "Kuyubí" in Moseley (2004) Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kuyubi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Fabre (2005)