Sanapana (''sanapana payvoma'') is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco.

Sanapaná people The Sanapana are one of many nomadic tribes inhabiting the lower Gran Chaco of western Paraguay. With the introduction of Mennonite settlements in the central Chaco in the 1930s, many nomadic tribes semi-settled near the Mennonites. The Mennonite ...

call themselves ''nenlhet'';

Enxet people The Enxet are an indigenous people of about 17,000 living in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay. Originally hunter-gatherers, many are now forced to supplement their livelihood as laborers on the cattle ranches that have encroached upon ...

call Sanapaná people ''saapa'ang''; Guaná people call them ''kasnapan''; and Enlhet people, ''kelya'mok''.

Phonology

Vowels

Three vowels are noted as /e a o/.

Consonants

References

External links

Sanapaná (Angaité dialect)
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Sanapaná (Enlhet dialect)
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