Shipibo language

Shipibo-Conibo
Shipibo-Conibo
Native to	Peru
Region	Ucayali Region
Ethnicity	Shipibo-Conibo people
Native speakers	26,000 (2003)
Language family	Panoan Mainline Panoan Nawa Chama Shipibo-Conibo; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; shp – Shipibo-Conibo; kaq – Tapiche Capanahua; xip – Xipinawa (unattested; possible dialect)

Shipibo (also Shipibo-Conibo, Shipibo-Konibo) is a Panoan language spoken in Peru and Brazil by approximately 26,000 speakers. Shipibo is an official language of Peru.

Dialects

Shipibo has three attested dialects:

Shipibo and Konibo (Conibo), which have merged together
Kapanawa of the Tapiche River, which is obsolescent

Extinct Xipináwa (Shipinawa) is thought to have been a dialect as well, but there is no linguistic data (Fleck 2013).

References

^ Shipibo-Conibo at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Tapiche Capanahua at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Xipinawa (unattested; possible dialect) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

External links

Proel: Lengua Shipibo

Bibliography

Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
Elias-Ulloa, Jose (2000). El Acento en Shipibo (Stress in Shipibo). Thesis. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima - Peru.
Elias-Ulloa, Jose (2005). Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Disyllabic Footing and Contextual Syllable Weight. Ph. D. Dissertation. Rutgers University. ROA 804 [1].
Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.
Loriot, James and Barbara E. Hollenbach. 1970. "Shipibo paragraph structure." Foundations of Language 6: 43-66. (This was the seminal Discourse Analysis paper taught at SIL in 1956-7.)
Loriot, James, Erwin Lauriault, and Dwight Day, compilers. 1993. Diccionario shipibo - castellano. Serie Lingüística Peruana, 31. Lima: Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 554 p. (Spanish zip-file available online http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/show_work.asp?id=928474530143&Lang=eng) This has a complete grammar published in English by SIL only available through SIL.

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[e17-1] Shipibo-Conibo at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Tapiche Capanahua at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Xipinawa (unattested; possible dialect) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

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