Jandiatuba Mayoruna language

Mayoruna
Jandiatuba Mayoruna
Native toBrazil
RegionJandiatuba River
EthnicityMayoruna
Extinct(date missing)
Panoan
  • Mayoruna
    • Mayo
      • Matis group
        • Mayoruna
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmayo1270

Jandiatuba Mayoruna is an extinct indigenous language of the Brazilian Amazon basin, near the borders of Peru and Colombia. The language is cited as Mayoruna of the Jandiatuba River in David Fleck's classification of the Panoan languages. Its closest extant relative is the Matis language.[1] The only known linguistic data on Jandiatuba Mayoruna is a 503-word lexicon from 1957.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Fleck, David W. (10 October 2013). "Panoan languages and linguistics". Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History: 1–112. doi:10.5531/sp.anth.0099. Retrieved 15 November 2025.
  2. ^ Fleck, David W. (19 May 2010). "Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family". Typological Studies in Language. 89: 29–64. doi:10.1075/tsl.89.03fle. Retrieved 15 November 2025.
  3. ^ Alviano, Fidelis de (1957). "Ensaios da língua dos Índios Magironas ou Maiorunas do rio Jandiatuba (Alto Solimões)". Revista (Trimestral) do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (in Portuguese). 237: 43–60.