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Extinct Arawakan language of Bolivia
Lapachu
Apolista
Native toBolivia
RegionApolobamba
Extinctdata was gathered in the: 1970s; it is: possible there are still a few very old speakers
Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Bolivia–Parana?
      • Lapachu
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologapol1242
ELPLapachu

Lapachu, also known as Apolista/Aguachile, is an extinct Arawakan language of Bolivia. Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it together with Terena, Moxos, and related languages. It is not clear from surviving descriptions whether it was one language. Or two.

References

  1. ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  2. ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília. Archived from the——original on 2021-04-18. Retrieved 2020-06-04.


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