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| Andoque | ||
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| Spoken in: | Colombia | |
| Total speakers: | 610 (2000) | |
| Language family: | language isolate Andoque |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ano | |
| ISO 639-3: | ano | |
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The Andoque language is an aboriginal language spoken for a few hundred natives in Northern South America, and is in decline.[1]
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.
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Genetic relations
Kaufman's (1994) Bora-Witótoan stock includes the Bóran and Witótoan (Huitoto-Ocaina) sub-families and also the endangered language isolate Andoque (Andoke). Richard Aschmann considers Andoque an isolate.
Joseph Greenberg includes Bora-Uitoto within his Macro-Carib phylum.
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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. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
- 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.
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