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Cubeo language

Cubeo
pãmié
Native toBrazil, Colombia
EthnicityCubeo
Native speakers
6,300 (2009)[1]
Tucanoan
  • Central
    • Cubeo
Language codes
ISO 639-3cub
Glottologcube1242
ELPKubeo
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The Cubeo language (also spelled Cuveo) is the language spoken by the Cubeo people in the Vaupés Department, the Cuduyari and Querarí Rivers and their tributaries in Colombia, and in Brazil and Venezuela.[1] It is a member of the central branch of the Tucanoan languages. Cubeo has borrowed a number of words from the Nadahup languages, and its grammar has apparently been influenced by Arawak languages. The language has been variously described as having a subject–object–verb[1] or an object–verb–subject[2] word order, the latter very rare cross-linguistically. It is sometimes called Pamiwa, the ethnic group's autonym, but it is not to be confused with the Pamigua language, sometimes called Pamiwa.

  1. ^ a b c Cubeo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "WALS Online - Language Cubeo". wals.info. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
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