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Itoto Majun (''Cumanogota, Cumaná, Kumaná''), also Chaima (''Chayma''), Cumanagoto, Waikeri, Palank, Pariagoto or Tamanaku is an endangered
Cariban language The Cariban languages are a Language family, family of languages Indigenous to north-eastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spok ...
of eastern coastal Venezuela. It is the language of the
Cumanagoto people The Cumanagoto people are a group of Native Americans in South America. Their language belongs to the Carib language family (Gildea 1998). Their territory extended originally over the ancient province of Nueva Andalucía (Cumaná and Barcelona ...
and other nations. Extinct dialects include ''Palenque'' (presumably ''Palank''), ''Piritu'' (''Piritugoto''), and ''Avaricoto'' (Gildea 1998).


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Cariban languages Extinct languages of South America {{na-lang-stub