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Cubeo

Cubeo proper noun: the Tucanoan language spoken by the Cubeo people.

Proper noun

Cubeo

  1. The Tucanoan language spoken by the Cubeo people.

Noun

Cubeo (plural Cubeos or Cubeo)

  1. A member of the ethnic group(s) in Vaupés Department, Colombia which traditionally speak(s) this language.
    • The Cubeo are largely an indoor people. Children play outside and there are occasions when the older men sit on the plaza in the shade of the house. But in the main, adults spend their leisure time indoors, […]1979, Irving Goldman, The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 39
    • The Cubeos are Tucano speaking groups, who lack a tribal identification. The community , as a basic unit, is formed by a patrilocal and patrilineal exogamic sib. These sibs do not necessarily have the same ethno-linguistic[…]1980, Ethnologische Zeitschrift Zürich

Forms of Cubeo

pluralCubeos
pluralCubeo

Questions about Cubeo

What does Cubeo mean?
Cubeo means the Tucanoan language spoken by the Cubeo people.
What part of speech is Cubeo?
Cubeo can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Cubeo in the dictionary

  1. cubelike
  2. cubemap
  3. cubemaps
  4. cubemate
  5. cubemates
  6. Cubeo
  7. Cubeos
  8. cuber
  9. cubera snapper
  10. cubera snappers
  11. Cubero

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