Caramanta language

Caramanta is an extinct Chocoan language of Colombia, documented solely through a wordlist from the 1940s,^[1] and in an ethnographic publication from 1954.^[2] It is sometimes described as a dialect of Anserma.^[3]

Caramanta
Native to	Colombia
Region	Antioquia Department
Ethnicity	Caramanta
Era	attested c. 1940s
Language family	Chocoan (unclassified) Anserma Caramanta
Language codes
ISO 639-3	crf
Glottolog	cara1271

Vocabulary

Numerals

The following table compares Caramanta words with other Chocoan languages.

^{[1][4][5][6][7]}

Numeral	Caramanta	Northern Emberá	Catío Embera	Wounaan	Anserma (Umbra)
1	aba	'aɓa	ába	ãb	omb̃e
2	ome	u'me	umé	numí	umbẽã
3	umpea	ũ'bea	ũbéa	tʰãřhũp	kimãri
4	quimane	kĩ'mãrĩ	kʰimárẽ	hayap	ís̄kal
5	juasoma	hueso'ma	wesomá ~ huwua 'one hand'	hua-ʔãb	sõ