Guamo language

Varieties that may have been dialects or closely related languages:[1]

• Guamo of San José - on the Santo Domingo River, Zamora
• Dazaro - once spoken in Zamora on the Guanare River
• Guamontey - once spoken from the mouth of the Zárate River to the Apure River (unattested)
• Tayaga - once spoken between the Arauca River and Apure River, in Apure State (unattested)
• Atapaima - once spoken at the mouth of the Guanaparo River, Guárico State, Venezuela (unattested)
• Guárico - extinct principal language Guárico State, once spoken on the Guárico River, Portuguesa River, and Apure River (unattested)
• Guire - once spoken on the middle course of the Tiznados River, Orituco River, and Guaritico River, Guarico State (unattested)
• Payme - once spoken at the mouth of the Guárico River (unattested)

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Santa Rosa and San José dialects of Guamo.[1]

gloss	Santa Rosa	San José
one	tagstar	tagstame
two	kete	dikiampa
three	kurumktin	kakute
head	putí	puté
eye	tuxua	tuagin
tooth	aufé	ufé
man	daixu	dauirko
water	kum	kum
fire	kuxul
sun	tign	matatin
jaguar	dion	dion
house	danga	danxa

Guama is primarily attested in a word list from 1778. The list has been reproduced below, with the original Spanish orthography maintained for the Guama forms.[2]

Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Guamo word list

• Kaufman, Terrence (1990). "Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more". In David L. Payne (ed.). Amazonian Linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press.