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Patagón language (Peru)

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Patagón
Patagón de Perico
Native toPeru
RegionMarañón River basin
Extinct(date missing)
Cariban
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpata1255

Patagón (Patagón de Perico, not to be confused with the Chonan languages of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia) is an extinct language formerly spoken in the Marañón River basin in Peru. It is known from only four words.

Vocabulary

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Four words are recorded, tuná 'water', anás 'maize', viue 'firewood', coará 'sheep' (evidently the word for 'sloth'). These suggest that Patagón was one of the Cariban languages, particularly close to Carijona,[1] and therefore, like the Jivaroan (Chicham) language Aguaruna, from the Amazon.[2]

Comparison

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A comparison of the four words above with Carijona equivalents is given below.[3][4]

gloss Patagón Carijona
water tuná tuna 'river'
maize anás anádʒi
sheep/sloth coará uarékore 'sloth'
firewood viue wewé

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Campbell, Lyle (2024-06-25), "Indigenous Languages of South America", The Indigenous Languages of the Americas (1 ed.), Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 182–279, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197673461.003.0004, ISBN 978-0-19-767346-1, retrieved 2025-09-22
  2. ^ Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 405–406. ISBN 978-0-511-48685-2.
  3. ^ https://bffrepositorio.unal.edu.co/server/api/core/bitstreams/60a408a1-c56a-4cc3-b9a6-3857a20a73c8/content
  4. ^ https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/tese%3Ameira-1998/meira_1998_proto-taranoan.PDF