Ramanos language explained

Ramanos
Region:Moxos Province, Bolivia
Extinct:recorded ca. 1790
Familycolor:American
Family:unclassified
Iso3:none
Glotto:rama1271
Glottorefname:Ramanos

Ramanos is a poorly attested extinct language of what is now Bolivia. Glottolog concludes that "the minuscule wordlist ... shows no convincing resemblances to surrounding languages".[1]

Vocabulary

Ramanos word list from the late 1700s published in Palau and Saiz (1989):[2]

Spanish gloss English gloss Ramanos
bueno good esumatá
malo bad emayio
el padre father tatá
la madre mother naná
el hermano brother nochoine
uno one eapurava
dos two casevava
tres three quimisa

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hammarström. Harald. Forke. Robert. Haspelmath. Martin. Bank. Sebastian. 2020. Ramanos. Glottolog 4.3.
  2. Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz. 1989. Moxos: Descripciones exactas e historia fiel de los indios, animales y plantas de la provincia de Moxos en el virreinato del Perú por Lázaro de Ribera, 1786-1794. Madrid: El Viso.