Chapacuran languages

Chapacura - Wanham is an indigenous American language family of South America, which consists of only five languages ​​and is threatened with extinction. Originally, these languages ​​were distributed in northeast Bolivia and in adjacent areas of Brazil.

Maybe they are related to the arawakischen languages.

They are subdivided as follows ( in square brackets is always the ISO 639-3 code specified):

  • Guapore group: ITENE (also Moré ) [ ite ] ( extinct)
  • Kabixí [ xbx ] (100 speakers)
  • Oro Win [ orw ] (approximately 5 Speaker)
  • Pakaásnovos [ pav ] (approx. 1,800 speakers; Also: Wari ')
  • Torá [ trz ] ( 40 speakers)

Besides the ITENE, which was also spoken in Bolivia, all these languages ​​are spoken in Brazil.

Swell

  • Harald Haarmann: Small lexicon of languages. Beck, Munich, 2001.
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