Urequena language
extinct language of South America
The extinct Urequena language (also Urekena or Arequena) is a language variety that is closely related to Andoque. It is known only from an unpublished word list by Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer that was probably recorded in June or July 1831.
Vocabulary
The table below adapted from Jolkesky (2016) shows similarities between Urequena and Andoque. The Urequena (Uerequena, Arequena, Orelhudos) data is from an undated 19th-century manuscript by Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer. Natterer gives the Içá River (or Putumayo River) as the location of the language.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as extinct language of South America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96413038. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1831 and 2016.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Urequena language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.