Andoque–Urequena languages explained

Andoque–Urequena
Region:Colombia and surroundings (Putumayo River)
Familycolor:American
Family:Bora–Witoto?
Child1:Andoque
Child2:Urequena
Glotto:ando1256
Glottoname:Andoque

Andoque–Urequena is a language family that consists of a pair of languages, Andoque and Urequena. The close relationship of Urequena to Andoque was first recognized by Marcelo Jolkesky.[1]

Urequena (Uerequena, Arequena,[2] Orelhudos) is currently extinct, and is known only from an undated 19-century manuscript by Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer.[3] Natterer gives the Içá River (or Putumayo River) as the location of the Urequena language.[4]

Terrence Kaufman places it in the proposed Bora–Witoto language family.

Notes and References

  1. Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas . Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
  2. https://www.scribd.com/document/321830992/Alem-do-Brazil-Johann-Natterer-e-as-colecoes-etnograficas-da-expedicao-austriaca-de-1817-a-1835-ao-Brasil Alem do Brazil - Johann Natterer e as coleções etnográficas da expedição austríaca de 1817 a 1835 ao Brasil
  3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262102774_The_Ethnographic_Collection_of_Johann_Natterer The Ethnographic Collection of Johann Natterer
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20200218233004/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9d15/e5b540973c2c9b6017482b48a5bd2e899519.pdf Johann Natterer and the Amazonian languages