Yuri language (Amazon)

Not to be confused with Yuri language (New Guinea).
Yurí
Xurúpixuna
Native to Brazil, extending slightly into Colombia
Region Caquetá river
Coordinates 1°50′S 69°0′W / 1.833°S 69.000°W / -1.833; -69.000
Extinct 19th-20th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog juri1235[1]

Yurí (Jurí) is, or was, a language previously spoken near a stretch of the Caquetá River in the Brazilian Amazon, extending slightly into Colombia. A small amount of data was collected on two occasions in the 19th century, in 1853 and 1867. Kaufman (1994:62, after Nimuendajú 1977:62) notes that there is good lexical evidence to support a link with Ticuna in a Ticuna–Yurí language family, though the data has never been explicitly compared (Hammarström 2010).

It is commonly assumed that the Yuri people and language survive among the uncontacted people or peoples of the Rio Puré region, now the Río Puré National Park. Indeed, "Yuri" is often used as a synonym for the only named people in the area, the Carabayo. A list of words collected in 1969 from the Carabayo, only recovered in 2013, suggests the language is close to Yuri, though perhaps not a direct descendent.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Juri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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