names of unattested varieties. Mosquito group Mosquito / Miskito - language spoken on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, Central America. Dialects are: Kâbô - spoken on the Nicaraguan coast. Baldam - spoken on the Sandy Bay and near Bimuna. Tawira / Tauira / Tangwera - spoken on the Prinzapolca River. Wanki - spoken on the Coco River and on the Cabo Gracias a Dios. Mam / Cueta - spoken on the left bank of the Coco River, Honduras. Chuchure - extinct dialect once spoken around Nombre de Dios, Panama. (Unattested.) Ulua / Wulwa / Gaula / Oldwaw / Taulepa - spoken on the Ulúa River and Carca River, Nicaragua. Sumu / Simou / Smus / Albauin - spoken on the Prinzapolca River, Nicaragua. Dialects are: Bawihka - spoken on the Banbana River. Tawihka / Táuaxka / Twaca / Taga - spoken between the Coco River and Prinzapolca River. Panamaca - spoken between the Pispis River, Waspuc River, and Bocay River. Cucra / Cockorack - spoken on the Escondido River and Siqui River. Yosco - spoken on the Tuma River and Bocay River. (Unattested.) Matagalpa group Matagalpa / Chontal / Popoluca - extinct language once spoken from the Tumo River to the Olama River, Nicaragua. Jinotega / Chingo - extinct language once spoken in the villages of Jinotega and Danlí, Nicaragua. (only several words.) Cacaopera - spoken in the villages of Cacaopera and Lislique, El Salvador. Proto-language Below are Proto-Misumalpan reconstructions by Adolfo Constenla Umaña (1987): Notes Bibliography Benedicto, Elena (2002), "Verbal Classifier Systems: The Exceptional Case of Mayangna Auxiliaries." In "Proceedings of WSCLA 7th". UBC Working Papers in Linguistics 10, pp. 1–14. Vancouver, British Columbia. Benedicto, Elena & Kenneth Hale, (2000) "Mayangna, A Sumu Language: Its Variants and Its Status within Misumalpa", in E. Benedicto, ed., The UMOP Volume on Indigenous Languages, UMOP 20, pp. 75–106. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts. Colette Craig & Kenneth Hale, "A Possible Macro-Chibchan Etymon", Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 34, 1992. Constenla Umaña, Adolfo (1987) "Elementos de Fonología Comparada de las Lenguas Misumalpas," Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica 13 (1), 129-161. Constenla Umaña A. (1998). "Acerca de la relación genealógica de las lenguas lencas y las lenguas misumalpas," Communication presented at the First Archeological Congress of Nicaragua (Managua, 20–21 July), to appear in 2002 in Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica 28 (1).