Cuiva
[aka Cuiba, Cuiba-Wámonae, Kuiva]Classification: Guajiboan
·threatened
Classification: Guajiboan
·threatened
Cuiba, Cuiba-Wámonae, Kuiva, Chiricoa, Cuiba-Wámonae, Hiwi, Maiben |
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Information from: “South America” (103-196) . Mily Crevels (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
~2925
In Venezuela, all 650 members of the Cuiba ethnic group are speakers of the language.
In Venezuela the Cuiba hunter-gatherers live in semi-nomadic bands.
Colombia, between the Meta, Casanare, and Capanaparo rivers, western part of the Department of Arauca: Resguardo Los Iguanitos, Municipality of Tame, Lower Cusay, to the north of the city of Tame; northwestern part of the Department of Casanare: Resguardo Caño Mochuelo-Hato Corozal, municipalities of Hato Corozal and Paz de Ariporo, between – to the north – the city of Tame (Department of Arauca) and – to the south – Paz de Ariporo; north-northwestern part of Vichada: Resguardo Santa Teresita del Tuparro, Municipality of Cumaribo, to the northwest of the centre of the Municipality of Cumaribo, between the rivers Tomo and Vichada, about 200km to the west of the Orinoco River; Resguardo La Pascua, municipalities of Puerto Carreño and Guacacías. Venezuela, Apure State, along the Upper Capanaparo River and its tributary Riecito.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
"2,450 in Colombia (2001). 1,500 monolinguals."
Arauca Department, Cravo Norte municipality; Casanare Department, Capanaparo rivers and tributaries, El Merey, Esmeralda, Santa María, Betania, Mochuelo, San José de Ariporo; also in Vichada Department along south bank of the Meta River.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
2930 (2280 Colombia, 650 (Venezuela)
2200 in Colombia; 650 in Venezuela.
In Colombia: Arauca department: Cravo Norte municipality; Casanare department: Betania, El Merey, Esmeralda, Mochuelo, San José de Ariporo, and Santa María on Capanaparo River and tributaries; Vichada department: Meta River south bank.
In Venezuela: Apure state: upper Capanaparo River area and Riecito tributary.