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Pacawara language

Chácobo
Chokobo-Pakawara
Native to Bolivia
Region Magdalena
Ethnicity 1,100 Chacobo (2006), possibly 50 Pacahuara (2007)
Native speakers
600 (2000–2007)
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Bolivian
        • Chácobo
Dialects
  • Chakobo
  • Pakawara
  • Karipuna?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
cao – Chácobo
pcp – Pakawara
kuq – Karipuna (confuses Jau-Navo with Kawahib)
Glottolog chac1251  (Chakobo)
paca1246  (Pacahuara)
kari1312  (Karipuna)
shin1267  (Shinabo)

Chácobo-Pakawara is a Panoan language spoken by about 550 of 860 ethnic tribal Chácobo people of the Beni Department of northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia, and (as of 2004) 17 of 50 Pakawara. Chácobo children are learning the language as a first language, but Pakawara is moribund. Extinct Karipuna may have been a dialect; alternative names are Jaunavô (Jau-Navo) and Éloe.

Several extinct 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.



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