Koihoma language explained

Koihoma language should not be confused with Orejón language.

Koihoma
Also Known As:Coixoma
Nativename:Orejone
States:Peru
Region:Amazonas
Extinct:? (data published 1850)
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Bora–Huitoto
Fam2:Huitoto–Ocaina
Fam3:(?)
Iso3:none
Glotto:none
Lingua:83-BAG-aa

Koihoma (Coixoma), also known ambiguously as Coto (Koto) and Orejone (Orejón), neither its actual name, is an extinct, apparently Witotoan language of Peru.[1]

In popular culture

In Steven Spielberg's film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Indiana Jones identifies Koihoma language on a mysterious letter written by Harold Oxley, although he explains to Mutt Williams that nobody speaks that language anymore. He quite contradictorily defines it a "Latin American language" that became extinct centuries before Spanish and Portuguese were introduced to the Americas.

Notes and References

  1. Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. .