3-506: Maipure (Maypure, Mejepure), was a language once spoken along the Ventuari , Sipapo , and Autana rivers of Amazonas and, as a lingua franca , in the Upper Orinoco region. It became extinct around the end of the eighteenth century. Zamponi provided a grammatical sketch of the language and furnished a classified word list, based on all of its extant eighteenth century material (mainly from
6-735: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ventuari River The Ventuari River is the largest tributary of the Orinoco in southern Venezuela . The Ventuari flows from south-central Venezuela in the Guiana Highlands southwest into the Orinoco River. It is 520 km (320 mi) long and its major tributary is the Manapiare River . The river drains the Guayanan Highlands moist forests ecoregion. The Ventuari River
9-619: The Italian missionary Filippo S. Gilij ). It is historically important in that it formed the cornerstone of the recognition of the Maipurean (Arawakan) language family . Kaufman (1994) gives its closest relatives as Yavitero and other languages of the Orinoco branch of Upper Amazon Arawakan . Aikhenvald places it instead in the Western Nawiki branch. This Arawakan languages -related article
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