Chácobo-Pakawara is a Panoan language spoken by about 550 of 860 ethnic tribal

Chácobo people The Chácobo are an indigenous people of Bolivia who number 1,532 in 2012. They primarily live near the Ivon y Medio River and Benicito River in Beni of northeastern Bolivia. One band also lives near the Yata River.Olson 79 Name "Chácobo" come ...

of the

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of northwest of Magdalena,

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, and (as of 2004) 17 of 50 Pakawara. Chácobo children are learning the language as a

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, but Pakawara is moribund. Karipuna may have been a variant; alternative names are Jaunavô (Jau-Navo) and Éloe. Several sleeping and unattested 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.David Fleck, 2013, ''Panoan Languages and Linguistics'', Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99

Examples

Montaño Aragon, M. ''Guía etnográfica lingüística de Bolivia' La Paz: Editorial Don Bosco, 1987

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Lenguas de Bolivia
(online edition)
New Testament in Chácobo

Chácobo
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Pacahuara
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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Chacobo Language Indigenous languages of the Andes Panoan languages Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area