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Huitotoan is a language family spoken in the Amazon region of South America, primarily in Colombia and Peru. It is characterized by its use of suffixes, with some prefixes also present. The complexity of words can vary, and some Huitotoan languages distinguish between masculine and feminine gender in verbs. Additionally, some languages in this family have unique grammatical features, such as the incorporation of nominal objects into verb stems and the use of different verbal forms depending on the sex of the speaker. Huitotoan languages are often described as agglutinative, meaning they combine distinct elements of meaning into single words without changing those elements.12

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