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Extinct language of Bolivia
Ramanos
RegionMoxos Province, Bolivia
Extinctrecorded ca. 1790
Language familyunclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottolograma1271

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".

Vocabulary

Ramanos word list from the late 1700s published in Palau and Saiz (1989):

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

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Ramanos". Glottolog 4.3.
  2. 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.
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