Lapachu language (original) (raw)

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Extinct Arawakan language of Bolivia

Lapachu
Apolista, Aguachile
Native to Bolivia
Region Apolobamba
Ethnicity Apolista
Era attested 1970s[1]it is possible there are still a few very old speakers
Language family ArawakanSouthernBolivia–Parana?Lapachu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Linguist List qa6
Glottolog apol1242
ELP Lapachu
Apolista is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Lapachu, also known as Apolista or Aguachile,[2]: 315 is an extinct Arawakan language of Bolivia.[3][4][5] Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it together with Terena, Moxos, and related languages.[6] It is not clear from surviving descriptions whether it was one language or two.

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  2. ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília. Archived from the original on 2021-04-18. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  3. ^ de Créqui-Montfort, G.; Rivet, P. (1913). "Linguistique Bolivienne. La langue Lapaču ou Apolista". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 45 (3): 512–531. ISSN 0044-2666.
  4. ^ Danielsen, Swintha (January 2013). "Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of bolivian extinct languages". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 66 (3). doi:10.1524/stuf.2013.0014. ISSN 2196-7148.
  5. ^ d'Orbigny, Alcide (1839). L'homme américain de l'Amérique Méridionale considéré sous ses rapports physiologiques et moraux par Alcide D'Orbigny (in French). National Library of Naples. Pitois-Levrault & C.
  6. ^ Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (1999). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge (GB): Cambridge university press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.