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Peba language

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Peba
Nijamvo
Native toNE Peru
Regionwestern Amazon
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpeba1243

Peba (Peva) is an extinct language from Peba–Yaguan language family once spoken in Peru.

Dialects

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Peba dialects are Cauwachi, Caumari, and Pacaya according to the American anthropologist and linguist John Alden Mason (1950).[1]

References

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  1. ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.