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Andoque language
The Andoque language is an aboriginal language spoken by a few hundred Andoque in Northern South America, and is in decline.
In 2000, there were 610 speakers in the area of the Anduche River, downstream from Aracuara, Amazonas, Colombia; 50 were monolinguals. The language is no longer spoken in Peru. 80% of speakers are proficient in Spanish. It is a language isolate.
Genetic relations
Kaufman's (1994) Bora-Witotoan stock includes the Boran and Witotoan (Huitoto-Ocaina) sub-families as well as Andoque. Richard Aschmann considers Andoque an isolate.
Joseph Greenberg includes Bora-Uitoto within his Macro-Carib phylum.
See also
Andoque
Bibliography
Aschmann, Richard P. (1993). Proto Witotoan. Publications in linguistics (No. 114). Arlington, TX: SIL & the University of Texas at Arlington.
Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. .
Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), ''Atlas of the world's languages'' (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
External links
Entry for Andoque at Rosetta Project
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