Yaminawa language
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Other Identifiers
- Nõ fichisharapaikĩ nõ kirikaanei, 1997.
- Ethnologue, 2015(Yaminahua, a language of Peru; yaa; UF Jaminawá, Yamanawa, Yaminawa, Yuminahua; Ucayali and Madre de Dios regions; classification: Panoan, Mainling, Tri-State. Also spoken in Bolivia (Pando Dept.) and Brazil (Acre))
- Linguasphere, 1999(83-NAF-da; yami-nawa; UF jami-nawá, yami-nahua, yumi-nahua, yama-nawa; Peru (Madre de Dios), also Brazil and migration > Bolivia (Pando))
Wikipedia description:
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 (=Nastanawa), Parkenawa (= Yora or "Nawa"), Shanenawa (Xaninaua, = Katukina de Feijó), Sharanawa (= Marinawa), Shawannawa (= Arara), Yawanawá, Yaminawa-arara (obsolescent; very similar to Shawannawa/Arara), Nehanáwa†). 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. Very few Yaminawá speak Spanish or Portuguese, though the Shanenawa have mostly shifted to Portuguese. Other sources report that the Yamináwa have switched entirely to Portuguese and no longer use their original language.
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