Timotean languages

Timótean
Geographic
distribution		Venezuela
Linguistic classificationTimotean
Subdivisions
Glottolog(not evaluated)
Timote and Cuica toponyms

The Timotean languages were spoken in the Venezuelan Andes around what is now Mérida. It is assumed that they are extinct. However, Timote may survive in the so-far unattested Mutú (Loco) language, as this occupies a mountain village (Mutús) within the old Timote state.[1][2]

  1. ^ Lyle Campbell, 2000. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America.
  2. ^ Willem Adelaar with Pieter Muysken, The Languages of the Andes, CUP, 2004:124–125