cubeo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the ethnic group(s) in Vaupés Department, Colombia which traditionally speak(s) this language.
Example Sentences
- "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, […]"
- "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[…]"
- "[…] the Cubeos are distinctive because they have maintained an elaborate mourning ritual designed to dismiss the souls of deceased community members."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of Cubeo terms
Frequently Paired Words
Wiktionary’s coverage of Cubeo terms