Nukak language

Nukak
Guaviare
Pronunciation[nɨkák náuʔ]
Native toColombia
RegionDepartment of Guaviare, Amazon Basin
EthnicityNukak
Native speakers
700 of Nukak proper (2010)[1]
400 monolinguals (no date)[2]
Puinave-Maku?[3][4]
  • Northwestern Puinave-Maku
    • Nukak-Kakwa
      • Nukak
Dialects
  • Wayari, Meu, Taka, Mi'pa
Official status
Official language in
In Colombia it is recognized as an official language within the Nukak territory
Regulated byInstituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia
Language codes
ISO 639-3mbr
Glottologkaku1242
ELPNukak
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The Nukak language (Nukak Makú: Guaviare) is a language of uncertain classification, perhaps part of the macrofamily Puinave-Maku. It is very closely related to Kakwa.[5]

  1. ^ Nukak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Nukak language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Fabre, Alain (2015). "PUINAVE-MAKU" (PDF). Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  4. ^ Eberhard, David M.; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fenni, eds. (2020). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World" (Twenty-third ed.). Dallas: SIL International. Retrieved 2020-06-30. Puinavean
  5. ^ Gustavo Politis, Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California (2007) 2009 p.53.