Caquetio language

Caquetio
Native to Venezuela, ABC islands
Ethnicity Caquetio people
Extinct 1862, with the death of Nicolaas Pyclas.[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog arub1238  (Aruba)[2]

Caquetio is an extinct Arawakan language of Venezuela. The Caquetio people lived along the shores of Lake Maracaibo and on the Dutch 'ABC' islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire.

References

  1. http://www.namaruba.org/_media/first-inhabitants.pdf
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Aruba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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