Omurano is an unclassified extinct language from Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. It is also known as Humurana, Roamaina, Numurana, Umurano, and Mayna.

Tovar (1961) linked Omurano to Taushiro

Taushiro language

Taushiro, also known as Pinche or Pinchi, is a nearly extinct possible language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon near Ecuador. In 2000 SIL counted one speaker in an ethnic population of 20...

 (and later Taushiro with Kandoshi); Kaufman

Terrence Kaufman

Terrence Kaufman is an American linguist specializing in documentation of unwritten languages, Mesoamerican historical linguistics and language contact phenomena. He is currently a professor at the department of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh....

 (1994) finds the links reasonable, and tentatively proposes a Kandoshi–Omurano–Taushiro language family. In 2007 he classified Omurano and Taushiro (but not Kandoshi) as a Yawan language. (See Macro-Andean

Macro-Andean

Macro-Andean is a speculative proposal by Kaufman linking languages of the northern Andes.Kaufman found lexical support for proposals linking the Jivaro–Cahuapanan families as suggested by Swadesh and others. By 2007 he had tentatively added Saparo–Yawan, which is itself provisional, and...

.)

External links

• http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=omu Ethnologue report for Omurano