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 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.