Yuri language (Amazon)
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Yurí is, or was, a language previously spoken near a stretch of the Caquetá River in the Brazilian Amazon, extending slightly into Colombia. A small amount of data was collected on two occasions in the 19th century, in 1853 and 1867. Kaufman
(1994:62, after Nimuendajú 1977:62) notes that there is lexical evidence to support a link with Ticuna
in a Ticuna-Yurí language family, though the data has never been explicitly compared (Hammarström 2010).
It is commonly assumed that the Yuri people and language survive among the uncontacted people or peoples the Rio Puré region, now the Río Puré National Park. Indeed, "Yuri" is often used as a synonym for the only named people in the area, the Carabayo. A list of words collected n 1969 from the, or one of the, Río Puré peoples was 20% cognate with Yuri, suggesting the possibility of a Rio Pure language family though not direct descent (Hammarström 2010).
Terrence Kaufman
Terrence Kaufman is an American linguist specializing in documentation of unwritten languages, Mesoamerican historical linguistics and language contact phenomena. He is currently a professor at the department of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh....
(1994:62, after Nimuendajú 1977:62) notes that there is lexical evidence to support a link with Ticuna
Ticuna language
Tïcuna, or Tïkuna, is a language spoken by approximately 40,000 people in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. It is the native language of the Tïcuna people. Tïcuna is generally classified as a language isolate, but may be related to the extinct Yuri language...
in a Ticuna-Yurí language family, though the data has never been explicitly compared (Hammarström 2010).
It is commonly assumed that the Yuri people and language survive among the uncontacted people or peoples the Rio Puré region, now the Río Puré National Park. Indeed, "Yuri" is often used as a synonym for the only named people in the area, the Carabayo. A list of words collected n 1969 from the, or one of the, Río Puré peoples was 20% cognate with Yuri, suggesting the possibility of a Rio Pure language family though not direct descent (Hammarström 2010).