Cumanagoto (''Cumanogota, Cumaná, Kumaná''); also Chaima (''Chayma'') is an endangered

Cariban language The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to northeastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spoken in small pocke ...

of eastern coastal Venezuela. It was 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. Their territory extended originally over the ancient province of Nueva Andalucía (Cumaná and Barcelona) in eastern Ve ...

. Extinct dialects, or closely related languages, include ''Palenque'' (presumably ''Palank''), ''Piritu'' (''Piritugoto''), and ''Avaricoto'' (Guildea 1998).

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