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Yaminawa
Yaminahua
Native to
Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
Ethnicity
Yaminawá and related peoples
Native speakers
2,729 (2006–2011)[1] Est. 400 uncontacted speakers of Yora (2007)
Yaminawa (Yaminahua) is a Panoan language of western Amazonia. It is spoken by the Yaminawá and some related peoples.
Yaminawa constitutes an extensive dialect cluster. Attested dialects are two or more Brazilian Yaminawa dialects, Peruvian Yaminawa, Chaninawa, Chitonawa, Mastanawa, Parkenawa (= Yora or "Nawa"), Shanenawa (Xaninaua, = Katukina de Feijó), Sharanawa (= Marinawa), Shawannawa (= Arara), Yawanawá, Yaminawa-arara (obsolescent; very similar to Shawannawa/Arara), Nehanawa†).[3]
Very few Yaminawá speak Spanish or Portuguese, though the Shanenawa have mostly shifted to Portuguese.[4]
^Yaminawa at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Yawanawá at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Sharanawa at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Shaninawa at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Yora at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
^Endangered Languages Project data for Shanenawa.
^David Fleck, 2013, Panoan Languages and Linguistics, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99
^"Yaminahua." Ethnologue. (retrieved 25 June 2011)
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