dialect_varieties: "Coyaima; Río Casacará (Iroka); Río Maracas; Yukpa sur (Caño Padilla-La Laguna).
At least 5 extant dialects including 2 in Venezuela.
The Río Cascará and Río Maracas dialects are probably largest and may be separate languages.
Venezuela dialects seem more similar to Río Maracas. (Ethnologue 2016.)",
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public_comment: "1,500 in Colombia (2000 Moreno). Ethnic population 3,530 (Arango and Sánchez 1998).",
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public_comment: "Most adults are still monolingual, but the younger generation is becoming more and more bilingual in Spanish",
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date_of_info: "2001 for both Colombia and Venezuela",
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