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

References

External links

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