Cabre language explained

Cabre
Nativename:Cávere
States:Colombia
Extinct:?
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Arawakan
Fam2:Northern
Fam3:Upper Amazon?
Fam4:Western Nawiki?
Iso3:none
Glotto:none
Linglist:qfd

Cabre (Cabere, Cávere) is an extinct Arawakan language of Colombia. Speakers lived along the Teviare and Zama rivers among speakers of Western Nawiki (Upper Amazonian) languages, but not enough is known to classify it well. Gilij (see Campbell) cited:

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