Kubeo

Facts

  • Language: Kubeo
  • Alternate names: Cubeo, Hahänana, Hehenawa, Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubwa, Kobewa, Pamiwa, Kubewa, Pamié, Cubeu, Kobéwa
  • Language code: cub
  • Language family: Tucanoan, Central Tucanoan (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 7,900
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Exogamous marriage pattern with speakers of other languages. Cubeo is the lingua franca of the northwest section of the Vaupés and Tucano is the lingua franca for the southeast section. Decrease in infant mortality has caused an increase in population. Traditional religion, Christian.

    Kubeo is spoken in Brazil, Colombia, South America.