Caramanta is an extinct Chocoan language of Colombia, documented solely through a wordlist from the 1940s, and in an ethnographic publication from 1954. It is sometimes described as a dialect of Anserma.
Vocabulary
Numerals The following table compares Caramanta words with other Chocoan languages. +NumeralCaramantaNorthern EmberáCatío EmberaWounaanAnserma (Umbra)1'aɓaábaãbomb̃e2u'meuménumíumbẽã3ũ'beaũbéatʰãřhũpkimãri4kĩ'mãrĩkʰimárẽhayapís̄kal5hueso'mawesomá ~ huwua 'one hand'hua-ʔãbsõ
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