Peba language

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Peba
Nijamvo
Native toNE Peru
Regionwestern Amazon
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpeba1243

Peba (Peva) is an extinct language from Peba–Yaguan language family once spoken in Peru.

Dialects

Peba dialects are Cauwachi, Caumari, and Pacaya according to the American anthropologist and linguist John Alden Mason (1950).[1]

References

  1. ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.