Caramanta

Caramanta was a Chocoan language once spoken in Colombia.

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Caramanta · 5.6°N 75.9°W

Caramanta is an extinct Chocoan language of Colombia, documented solely through a wordlist from the 1940s, and in an ethnographic publication from 1954. It is sometimes described as a dialect of Anserma.

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Words in Caramanta

Meaning	Word	Romanization
eye	tau*
nose	ku*
tooth	kida*
tongue	kereme*
hand	jua*
blood	ua*
skin	oe*
knee	undar*
water	banina*
fire	tubueCia*
sun	umata*
stone	mokara*
tree	bakuru*
night	ensabude*
path	o*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

Nearby languages

Colombian Sign Language Emberá-Baudó Anserma Emberá-Chamí Emberá-Tadó Antioquian Chibcha Opón-Carare Epena Emberá-Catío

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