Cayubaba language

Cayubaba
Kayuvava
Native toBolivia
RegionBeni Department
Ethnicity2,203 Cayubaba people (2012)[1]
Native speakers
12 (main language), 1,246 (learned in childhood)[1] (2012)[2]
Official status
Official language in
 Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3cyb
Glottologcayu1262
ELPCayuvava

Cayubaba (Cayuvava, Cayuwaba, Kayuvava) is a moribund language of the Bolivian Amazon. The Cayubaba people inhabit the Beni region to the west of the Mamoré River, North of the Santa Ana Yacuma,[2] with a population of 794 inhabitants.

Since the declaration of the Supreme Decree N.º 25894 on September 11, 2000, Cayubaba has been one of the official indigenous languages of Bolivia,[3] which was included in the Political Constitution, which was introduced on February 7, 2009.[4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Censo2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Cayubaba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  3. ^ "Decreto Supremo". [verification needed]
  4. ^ "Constitución Política del Estado (CPE) - Infoleyes Bolivia". bolivia.infoleyes.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-06-03. [verification needed]