Napeca language


Napeca is an extinct Chapacuran language. The Napeca people were said to have spoken the same language as those who spoke Quitemoca, and is thought to be a dialect of the same language as Quitemoca. Jürgen Riester documented the language in the 1960s, and recorded some samples.

Morphology

Pronouns

Adjectives

The suffix -ya is sometimes attached after an adjective to indicate the first person singular ; the same construction is present for the second person singular.

Negation

Negation is expressed in Napeka by the infix -za-.
NapekaGlossNapekaGloss
mbeb-yaI gombeb-za-yaI do not go
urupa-yapae tomimaI understand your languageaipíi-za-yapae tomimaI do not understand your language

Vocabulary

Sample phrases