Tamanaku language

Tamanaku
Native toVenezuela
Extinct20th century[1]
Cariban
  • Venezuelan Carib
    • Mapoyo–Tamanaku
      • Tamanaku
Language codes
ISO 639-3tmz
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Glottologtama1338

Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.

The earliest word list of Tamanaku was published by Gilij in 1780, from his 20-year stay among the Tamanku beginning around 1750.[2]

  1. ^ Tamanaku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Meira S, Birchall J, Chousou-Polydouri S. 2015. A character-based internal classification of the Cariban family. Talk presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisticae Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands, Sept. 4.