Peba language explained

Peba
Nativename:Nijamvo
Extinct:?
Region:western Amazon
Familycolor:American
Iso3:none
Glotto:peba1243
Glottorefname:Peba

Peba (Peva) is an extinct language from Peba–Yaguan language family once spoken in Peru.

Dialects

Peba dialects are Cauwachi, Caumari, and Pacaya according to the American anthropologist and linguist John Alden Mason (1950).[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mason, John Alden . John Alden Mason

    . John Alden Mason . 1950 . The languages of South America . Julian . Steward . Handbook of South American Indians . 6 . 157–317 . Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 . Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office.