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Publication details [#59167]

Michael, Lev. 2014. On the Pre-Columbian Origin of Proto-Omagua-Kokama. Journal of language contact 7 (2) : 309–344.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | historical linguistics | language contact | religion | text analysis

Language as a subject

Kokama | Omagua

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

Drawing on 17th and 18th century missionary chronicles and present-day language data, this study asserts that Omagua and Kokama do not derive from 17th century colonial-era language contact, but from Proto-Omagua-Kokama, a pre-Columbian contact language.