Reyesano language

Reyesano
Spoken in	Bolivia
Region	Beni
Native speakers	unknown (a few, incl. some children cited 1961) Possibly still a few in 2000.
Language family	Tacanan Araona–Tacanan Cavinena–Tacana Tacana Proper Reyesano
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rey

Reyesano is a Tacanan language that was spoken by only a few speakers, including children, in 1961 in Bolivia. It is considered nearly extinct.

Evidently the name comes from the name of the town of Reyes, of the Province of Ballivián in the Departmentof the Beni in the plains adjacent to the Bolivian Amazon. There still are adult speakers in the largely indigenous community of El Cozar in Reyes. However, it is doubtful that this language will survive much into the 21st century. Such is the margination of the indigenous people in the Beni that very little Reyesano words have entered the popular criollo Spanish, very unlike the situation in Quechua and Aymara influenced areas. There are many indigenous terms in "camba" (Spanish of the Beni) but they mostly of Guaraní origin carried to the Beni by the original settlers from Santa Cruz.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Reyesano language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)