Sapé
Sapé was a language isolate once spoken in Venezuela.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Sapé, also called Kaliana or Caliana, is an extinct language recently spoken along the Paragua River and Karuna River. There were only about a few dozen speakers in the mid-1900s, and by the 2000s, only a few elderly speakers were found. Sapé may be a language isolate.
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Words in Sapé
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | kamon* | |
| name | marua* | |
| eye | amku* | |
| ear | awi* | |
| nose | ayku* | |
| tooth | p3ika* | |
| tongue | matu* | |
| hand | piCaapa* | |
| blood | tsom* | |
| bone | wina* | |
| skin | kuy* | |
| breast | wi* | |
| liver | mapi* | |
| water | nam | |
| fire | Soko* | |
| star | 5ayino* | |
| stone | takuypa* | |
| leaf | muyra* | |
| night | useyna* | |
| one | koka* | |
| two | k3rya* | |
| I | m3* | |
| you | kap3* | |
| we | m3yono* | |
| drink | pe* | |
| see | mow* | |
| hear | man* | |
| die | siya* | |
| path | mu* | |
| new | yenko5a* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · sape1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · spc