Yaminawa language
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| Yaminawa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru, Bolivia, Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Yaminawá and related peoples |
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Native speakers
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3,100 (2000–2011)[1] including an est. 400 uncontacted (2007)[1] |
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Panoan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: yaa – Yaminawa ywn – Yawanawa mcd – Sharanawa swo – Shaninawa mts – Yora |
| Glottolog | yami1255[2] |
Yaminawa (Yaminahua) is a Panoan language of western Amazonia.
Yaminawa constitutes an extensive dialect cluster. Attested dialects are[3] two or more Brazilian Yaminawa dialects, Peruvian Yaminawa, Chaninawa, Chitonawa, Mastanawa, Parkenawa (= Yora or "Nawa"), Shanenawa (Xaninaua, = Katukina de Feijó), Sharanawa (= Marinawa), Shawannawa (= Arara), Yawanawa, Yaminawa-arara (obsolescent; very similar to Shawannawa/Arara), Nehanawa†)
Very few Yaminawá people speak Spanish or Portuguese, though the Shanenawa have mostly shifted to Portuguese.[4]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Yaminawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yawanawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Sharanawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Shaninawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yora at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yaminawa Complex". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ David Fleck, 2013, Panoan Languages and Linguistics, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99
- ^ "Yaminahua." Ethnologue. (retrieved 25 June 2011)
External links[edit]
- Wayampi language dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
- Sharanahua Language Collection of Pierre Déléage (includes myths, shamanistic songs, and ceremonial songs) at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA).
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