Chapacura-Wanham
Chapacura-Wanham is an indigenous American language family from South America consisting of only five languages and is critically endangered. Originally, these languages were spoken in northeastern Bolivia and in neighboring areas of Brazil .
Possibly they are related to the Arrawak languages .
They are subdivided as follows (the ISO 639-3 code is given in square brackets ):
- Guapore Group:
- Itene (also: Moré) [ite] (extinct)
- Kabixí [xbx] (approx. 100 speakers)
- Madeira Group:
- Oro Win [orw] (approx. 5 speakers)
- Pakaásnovos [pav] (approx. 1,800 speakers; also: Wari ')
- Torá [trz] (approx. 40 speakers)
Except for Itene, which was also spoken in Bolivia, all of these languages are spoken in Brazil.
swell
- Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series. 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 .
literature
- Geralda Angenot de Lima: Description phonologique, grammaticale et lexicale du moré, langue amazoniane de Bolivie et du Brésil. 2 volumes. Editora da Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho 2001, ISBN 85-88436-15-9 (also: Leiden, University, dissertation, 2002; French).
- Daniel L. Everett , Barbara Kern: Wari. The Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil. Routledge, London et al. 1997, ISBN 0-415-00999-5 .