|extinct=Last speaker of Pemono after 1998. A few semi-speakers of Mapoyo proper (2007), 20 Yabarana (1977)
|ref=e18
|familycolor=American
|fam1=Carib
|fam2 = Venezuelan Carib
|fam3 = Mapoyo–Tamanaku
|lc1=mcg|ld1=Mapoyo
|lc2=yar|ld2=Yabarana
|lc3=pev|ld3=Pémono
|glotto=mapo1245
|glottorefname=Mapoyo–Yawarana
}}Mapoyo, or Mapoyo–Yavarana, is a Carib language spoken along the Suapure and Parguaza Rivers, Venezuela. The ethnic population of Mapoyo proper is about 365. Yabarana dialect is perhaps extinct; 20 speakers were known in 1977.[ An additional dialect, Pémono,[1] was discovered in 1998. It was spoken by an 80-year-old woman and has since gone extinct.]
References
1. ^Not the same as Pemon
External links
{{Languages of Venezuela}}{{Cariban languages}}{{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub}} 5 : Languages of Venezuela|Extinct languages of South America|Languages extinct in the 1990s|Languages extinct in the 2000s|Cariban languages