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(Redirected from Chacobo language) Panoan language
Chácobo
Bolivian Nawa
Chokobo-Pakawara
Native toBolivia
RegionBeni Department
Ethnicity1,100 Chacobo (2006), possibly 50 Pacahuara (2007)
Native speakers(600 cited 2000–2007)
Language familyPanoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Bolivian
        • Chácobo
Dialects
  • Chácobo
  • Pakawara
  • Karipuna?
Official status
Official language in Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
cao – Chácobo
pcp – Pakawara
kuq – Karipuna (confuses Jau-Navo with Kawahib)
Glottologboli1261  Bolivian Nawa
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 dialect is moribund. Karipuna may have been a variant; alternative names are Jaunavô (Jau-Navo) and Éloe.

Several unattested extinct 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.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Retroflex Post-alv./
Palatal
Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Stop p t k ʔ
Affricate t͡s t͡ʃ
Fricative β s ʂ ʃ h
Tap ɽ
Approximant w j
  • Sounds /t͡ʃ, ʃ/ may also be heard as palatalized when before vowels in free variation.
  • /k/ may be heard as a voiced fricative when in between the positions of /ɨ/.
  • /t͡ʃ/ assimilates to a retroflex when /ʂ/ is in the following syllable.
  • /n/ can be heard as as a realization of the sequence /ni/.

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i ɨ o
Mid
Low a
  • /o/ may be heard as when occurring within the environment of high vowels.

Examples

Numerals

nicatsu 1
dafuira 2
unamarana 3
atchayuna 4
chayuna 5

Pronouns

hiasro I
miani you
zonihua he/she/it/they
noquirzo we
zunimato you (pl.)

Vocabulary

chii fire
huisruhuaina rain
jini water
mai earth
oriquiti food
osse moon
rsepo chicha
rsiqui maize
vari sun
vistima star

References

  1. ^ 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
  5. Tallman, Adam J. R. (2018). A Grammar of Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. University of Texas at Austin.
  6. ' Montaño Aragon, M. Guía etnográfica lingüística de Bolivia' La Paz: Editorial Don Bosco, 1987
  • Tallman, Adam J. (2018). A grammar of Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon (Ph.D. thesis). The University of Texas at Austin. doi:10.26153/tsw/1343. hdl:2152/74212.

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