Otuke language

Otuke (Otuque) is an extinct language of the Macro-Gê family, related to Bororo.

Otuke
Native toBrazil
RegionMato Grosso
Extinct(date missing)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3otu
Glottologotuk1240
Locations of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos with present international borders

Other varieties

Loukotka (1968)

Several attested extinct Bororoan varieties were either dialects of Otuku or closely related:[2]

  • Covareca - Santa Ana de Chiquitos mission, Bolivia
  • Curuminaca - Casalvasco mission, Bolivia
  • Coraveca (Curave, Ecorabe) - Santo Corazón mission, Bolivia
  • Curucaneca (Curucane, Carruacane) - San Rafael mission, Bolivia
  • Tapii - Santiago de Chiquitos mission, Bolivia

(See Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos for locations.)

Mason (1950) says the first four are "separate and very different", but Loukotka (1968) notes that nothing is known of Curave or Curucane (or of Tapii), that only 14 words of Curumina and 19 of Covare have been preserved.[2]

Mason (1950)

Mason (1950) lists the following varieties of Otuke:[3]

Otuke
  • Otuké
  • Covareca
  • Curuminaca
  • Coraveca (?); Curavé (?)
  • Curucaneca (?)
  • Tapii (?)

Mason (1950) notes that Tapii may have been either Otukean or Zamucoan.

The following are listed as Bororo varieties by Mason (1950):

Bororo
  • Eastern: Orarimugudoge
  • Western: Cabasal; Campanya
  • Acioné
  • Aravira
  • Biriuné
  • Coroa (?)
  • Coxipo (?)

References
  1. Otuke at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
  2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
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