Chakobo language

Chácobo
Chokobo-Pakawara
Native toBolivia
RegionBeni Department
Ethnicity1,100 Chacobo (2006), possibly 50 Pacahuara (2007)[1]
Native speakers
600 (2000–2007)[1]
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Bolivian
        • Chácobo
Dialects
  • Chakobo
  • Pakawara
  • Karipuna?
Official status
Official language in
 Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
cao – Chácobo
pcp – Pakawara
kuq – Karipuna (confuses Jau-Navo with Kawahib)
Glottologchac1251  Chácobo
paca1246  Pacahuara
kari1312  Karipuna
shin1267  Shinabo
ELPChácobo

Chácobo-Pakawara is a Panoan language spoken by about 550 of 860 ethnic tribal Chácobo people of the Beni Department northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia, and (as of 2004) 17 of 50 Pakawara. Chácobo children are learning the language as a first language, but Pakawara is moribund.[2] Karipuna may have been a variant; alternative names are Jaunavô (Jau-Navo) and Éloe.[3]

Several dormant and unattested languages were reported to have been related, perhaps dialects. These include Capuibo and Sinabo/Shinabo of the Mamoré River. However, nothing is actually known of these purported languages.[4]

  1. ^ a b Chácobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Pakawara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Karipuna (confuses Jau-Navo with Kawahib) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "BBC News".
  3. ^ Distinguish Karipuna language (Rondônia), a Tupian language, across the border in Brazil
  4. ^ David Fleck, 2013, Panoan Languages and Linguistics, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99