Guamo, also known as Wamo or Guamotey, is an extinct language once spoken in what is now southern Venezuela, in the regions of Apure, Barinas, Guarico, and Portuguesa, before dying out after 1778. It is attested only through a wordlist recorded in an anonymous 1778 source, making it one of the more poorly documented languages of the region. Most linguists classify Guamo as an isolate, though Terrence Kaufman argued in 1990 for a connection to the Chapacuran languages of Bolivia and Brazil.
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