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Yurumanguí

South American Language Families

Yurumanguí is an extinct language isolate formerly spoken along the Yurumanguí River on the Pacific coast of Colombia. It is known only from a wordlist collected in the 1760s. The French linguist Paul Rivet proposed in 1942 that it belonged to the Hokan language family, a hypothesis no longer accepted by modern classifications, leaving Yurumanguí without any established genealogical relative.

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