Sapé language

Sapé
	Kaliana
Native to	Venezuela
Region	Paragua and Karuna rivers
Ethnicity	28 (1992)[1]
Native speakers	5 (2007)[1]
Language family	Arutani–Sape ? Sapé;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	spc
Glottolog	sape1238[2]

Sapé a.k.a. Kaliana is a nearly extinct language spoken along the Paragua River and Karuna River. In 2008 a few elderly speakers were found. Sape is one of the most poorly attested extant languages in South America, and may be a language isolate. There is, however, no comprehensive linguistic data on the language.[3][4]

Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Warao, Chibchan, Puinave-Kak, Jirajara, Tukano (especially Cubeo and Wanano), Arutani, and Maku language families due to contact.[5]

Similarities with Chibchan are primarily with the Magdalena subgroup.[5]^:326

References

Sapé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sapé". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183
Dixon and Aikhenvald, 1999, The Amazonian Languages, p 343.
Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília.

External links

Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: SAPÉ.
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Sapé Collection

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[e18-1] Sapé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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

[3] Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183

[4] Dixon and Aikhenvald, 1999, The Amazonian Languages, p 343.

[Jolkesky-2016-5] Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília.