Ramanos language
| Ramanos | |
|---|---|
| Region | Moxos Province, Bolivia |
| Extinct | recorded ca. 1790 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | rama1271 |
Ramanos is a poorly attested extinct language of what is now Bolivia. Glottolog concludes that "the minuscule wordlist ... shows no convincing resemblances to surrounding languages".[1]
Vocabulary
[edit]Ramanos word list from the late 1700s published in Palau and Saiz (1989):[2]: 169
Spanish gloss English gloss Ramanos bueno good esumatá malo bad emayio el padre father tatá la madre mother naná el hermano brother nochoine uno one eapurava dos two casevava tres three quimisa
References
[edit]- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Ramanos". Glottolog 4.3.
- ^ Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz. 1989. Moxos: Descripciones exactas e historia fiel de los indios, animales y plantas de la provincia de Moxos en el virreinato del Perú por Lázaro de Ribera, 1786-1794. Madrid: El Viso.