Kuyubí language

Kujubim (Kuyubí, Cojubím) is a possibly extinct Chapacuran language spoken around the city of Guajará-Mirim in Rondônia, Brazil. The endonym, Kaw To Yo (or Kaw Tayó, which means 'eaters of payara fish'), may be the source of the river and synonym for this language, Cautario.^[1] Sources which list one do not list the other, so these may be the same language.^[2]

Kuyubí
Kujubim, Kumaná
Kaw To Yo, Kaw Tayó
Native to	Bolivia, Brazil
Region	Southwestern Rondônia, Bolivia–Brazil border area
Native speakers	perhaps 3 (2001)[1]
Language family	Chapacuran More Kuyubí
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	ite-kum Abitana-Kumaná
	1a6 Kuyubí
Glottolog	kuyu1236

In addition, there is a language called Cumana (Kumaná), a possibly extinct variety of Kuyubí.^[3] Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell (2012)^[4] are Torá, Toraz (distinguish Torá language), and Cautario, the last perhaps after the local river, and Abitana-Kumaná (distinguish Abitana dialect).

Phonology

Kuyubí has 34 phonemes, 29 consonants and 5 vowels.

Consonants

Kuyubí consonants^[5]

			Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Occlusive	oral	plain	p		t			k	ʔ
		preglottalized	ˀp		ˀt			ˀk
		affricate				t͡ʃ
		tap			ɾ
		preglottalized tap			ˀɾ
	nasal	plain	m		n		ɲ
		preglottalized	ˀm		ˀn		ˀɲ
		postglottalized	mˀ		nˀ		ɲˀ
Fricative	voiceless				s
	voiced				z
Resonant	plain		(w)				j	w
	preglottalized		(ˀw)				ˀj	ˀw
	postglottalized		(wˀ)				jˀ	wˀ
	aspirate		h

Vocabulary

Conjubim vocabulary from Sampaio & da Silva (2011):^[6]

gloss	Conjubim
‘I (1sg)’	pa
‘thou (2sg)’	ma
‘we (1pl)’	ti
‘many’	napa
‘one’	tan
‘two’	wakoran
‘big’	pu
‘small’	pe
‘woman’	tana'man
‘man (adult male human)’	namankon
‘child’	rato
‘person (individual human)’	piten
‘bird’	pune
‘dog’	kinam
‘louse (lice)’	piw
‘tree’	pana
‘seed (n)’	tukayn
‘leaf (botanics)’	tan
‘root (botanics)’	toka ijn pana
‘meat/flesh’	nawa zip
‘blood (n)’	wik
‘bone’	pat
‘egg’	pariz
‘fat (organic substance)’	mapum
‘horn’	tataw
‘tail’	kipun
‘hair (of head)’	tunam upek
‘head (anatomic)’	pupek
‘ear’	tenetet
‘eye’	tok
‘nose’	pul
‘tooth (general)’	jat
‘tongue (anatomical)’	kapajak
‘fingernail’	tupi
‘foot (not leg)’	tinak
‘knee’	toko zimtinak
‘hand (not arm)’	pepeje tipan
‘belly (abdomen, stomach)’	takawta
‘heart (organ)’	tuku rutim
‘liver’	tawan
‘drink (v)’	tok
‘eat’	kaw
‘bite (v)’	kiw
‘ash(es)’	pop
‘burn (tr. v)’	pop
‘see (v)’	kirik
‘hear (v)’	rapat
‘sleep (v)’	pupiyn
‘die (v)’	pinĩ
‘kill (v)’	puru
‘swim (v)’	mara kujan
‘fly (v)’	ze
‘walk (v)’	wana
‘lie (recline) (v)’	titim
‘sit (v)’	pe
‘stand (v)’	pak
‘give (v)’	ni
‘sun’	mapitõ
‘moon’	panawo
‘star’	pipojõ
‘water (n)’	kom
‘rain (n)’	pipan narikom
‘sand’	tinak
‘earth (soil, ground)’	tinak
‘tobacco’	ju'e
‘fire’	pite
‘red (colour)’	siwí
‘white (colour)’	towa
‘night’	pisim
‘warm’	nok
‘cold’	tiw
‘full’	pẽpe
‘good’	nami
‘round’	pu

A word list with 793 lexical items is also available from Rodrigues Duran (2000).^[5]