Andoque language

The Andoque language is an aboriginal language spoken by a few hundred Andoque in Northern South America, and is in decline.^[1]

In 2000, there were 610 speakers in the area of the Anduche River, downstream from Aracuara, Amazonas, Colombia; 50 were monolinguals. The language is no longer spoken in Peru. 80% of speakers are proficient in Spanish. It is a language isolate.

Genetic relations

Kaufman's (1994) Bora–Witótoan stock includes the Bóran and Witótoan (Huitoto-Ocaina) sub-families as well as Andoque. Richard Aschmann considers Andoque an isolate.

Joseph Greenberg includes Bora–Uitoto within his Macro-Carib phylum.

Notes

1. ^ Ethnologue

See also

• Andoque

Bibliography

• Aschmann, Richard P. (1993). Proto Witotoan. Publications in linguistics (No. 114). Arlington, TX: SIL & the University of Texas at Arlington.
• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
• Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.

External links

• Entry for Andoque at Rosetta Project
• Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: ANDOKE[1]

This Indigenous languages of the Americas-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · e