Andoque–Urequena languages

{{Short description|Language family of Colombia}}

{{Infobox language family

| name = Andoque–Urequena

| acceptance =

| region = Colombia and surroundings (Putumayo River)

| familycolor = American

| child1 = Andoque

| child2 = Urequena

| glotto = ando1256

| glottoname = Andoque

| fam1 = Bora–Witoto?

}}

Andoque–Urequena is a language family that consists of a pair of languages, Andoque and Urequena. The close relationship of Urequena to Andoque was first recognized by Marcelo Jolkesky.Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. [http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418142223/http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica |date=2021-04-18 }}. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.{{rp|285}}

Urequena (Uerequena, Arequena,[https://www.scribd.com/document/321830992/Alem-do-Brazil-Johann-Natterer-e-as-colecoes-etnograficas-da-expedicao-austriaca-de-1817-a-1835-ao-Brasil Alem do Brazil - Johann Natterer e as coleções etnográficas da expedição austríaca de 1817 a 1835 ao Brasil]. Orelhudos) is currently extinct, and is known only from an undated 19-century manuscript by Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer.[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262102774_The_Ethnographic_Collection_of_Johann_Natterer The Ethnographic Collection of Johann Natterer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222212324/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262102774_The_Ethnographic_Collection_of_Johann_Natterer |date=2022-12-22 }}. Natterer gives the Içá River (or Putumayo River) as the location of the Urequena language.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200218233004/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9d15/e5b540973c2c9b6017482b48a5bd2e899519.pdf Johann Natterer and the Amazonian languages].

Terrence Kaufman places it in the proposed Bora–Witoto language family.

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