| 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) |
Panoan
| |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Bolivia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:yaa – Yaminawaywn – Yawanawámcd – Sharanawaswo – Shaninawamts – Yora |
| Glottolog | yami1255 |
| ELP | Yaminawa |
| Shanenawa[2] | |
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] Xinane Yura, a recently discovered variety, is spoken by a group contacted in Kampa and Envira River Isolated Peoples Indigenous Territory, Acre, Brazil during the 2010s.[4]
Very few Yaminawá speak Spanish or Portuguese, though the Shanenawa have mostly shifted to Portuguese.[5]
- ^ 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
- ^ Camargo Souza, Livia; Franchetto, Bruna (2021-12-29). "Aislados y «des-aislados» (in)voluntarios a través de sus lenguas: dos casos aparentemente opuestos". Anthropologica. 39 (47). Sistema de Bibliotecas PUCP: 317–337. doi:10.18800/anthropologica.202102.013. ISSN 2224-6428.
- ^ "Yaminahua." Ethnologue. (retrieved 25 June 2011)
