Chiriba (Chiriva) is a poorly attested language of
Moxos Province Moxos is a province in the Beni Department, Bolivia. It is named after the Moxos savanna.
The province consists of one municipality, San Ignacio de Moxos Municipality, which is identical to the province. The province is divided into three cantons ...
, Bolivia which may have belonged to the
Panoan family. All that was recorded of it was a list of seven words; several of these resemble Panoan languages, especially
Pakawara, and none resemble other language families. Unattested Chumana is reported to have been related.
[David Fleck, 2013, ''Panoan Languages and Linguistics'', Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99]
Vocabulary
Chíriva word list from the late 1790s published in Palau and Saiz (1989):
[Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz. 1989. ''Moxos: Descripciones exactas e historia fiel de los indios, animales y plantas de la provincia de Moxos en el virreinato del Perú por Lázaro de Ribera, 1786-1794''. Madrid: El Viso.]
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See also
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Reyesano language
References
{{Pano-Tacanan languages
Panoan languages