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Amahuaca Indian Language (Amawaka, Amauaca)

Amahuaca is a Panoan language of South America, spoken by about 200 people in Peru and Brazil. Amahuaca is an agglutinative language with predominantly SOV word order.



˜Our Online Amahuaca Materials

Amahuaca Vocabulary:
    Our list of vocabulary words in the Amahuaca language, with comparison to words in other Panoan languages.
Amahuaca Pronunciation Guide:
    How to pronounce Amahuaca words.
Amahuaca Animal Words:
    Illustrated glossary of animal words in the Amahuaca language.
Amahuaca Colors:
    Worksheet showing color words in the Amahuaca language.
Amahuaca Body Parts:
    Online and printable worksheets showing parts of the body in the Amahuaca language.
Amahuaca Numbers:
    Worksheet showing how to count in the Amahuaca language.

˜Amahuaca Language Resources

Rosetta Project: Amahuaca Language:
    Scanned-in Amahuaca linguistics materials including grammar, phonology and texts.
I Want To But I Can't:
    Interesting article on frustrative verb forms in the Amahuaca language.
Human Rights: Amahuaca:
    Translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into Amahuaca.
Lengua Amawaka:
    Amahuaca language information including a linguistic map of Peru. Page in Spanish.
Ethnologue: Amahuaca:
    Demographic information on the Amahuaca language.

˜Amahuaca Culture and History

Amahuaca Culture:
    History and traditions of the Peruvian Amahuaca tribe.
The Amahuaca Amazon Tribe of Peru:
    Article on Amahuaca culture including photographs.
Amahuaca:
    Wikipedia article about the Amahuacas.
Los Amahuaca-Yora * Amahuaca * Los Amahuacas:
    Information about the Amahuaca tribe in Spanish.
The Amahuaca and the Spirit World:
    Book on Amahuaca spirituality for sale online.



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