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Capanahua Indian Language (Capacho)

Capanahua is a Panoan language of South America, spoken by 400 people in Peru. It is an agglutinative language with SOV word order.

Our Online Capanahua Materials

Capanahua Words:
    Our list of vocabulary words in the Capanahua language, with comparison to words in other Panoan languages.
Capanahua Animal Words:
    Illustrated glossary of animal words in the Capanahua language.
Capanahua Numbers:
    Worksheet showing how to count in the Capanahua language.

Capanahua Language Resources

Capanahua Orthography * Capanahua Grammar * Capanahua Phonology * Capanahua Texts:
    Scanned-in Capanahua language materials from the Rosetta Project.
La Lengua Kapanawa:
    Information on the Capanahua language including a linguistic map of Peru. Page in Spanish.
Language Museum: Capachos * Capanahua Bible Translation
    Bible passages in the Capanahua language.
House of Languages: Capanahua
     Information about Capanahua language usage.
Capanahua Language:
    Demographic information on Capanahua from the Ethnologue of Languages.
Wikipedia: Capanahua:
    Encyclopedia article on the Capanahua language.
Capanahua Language Tree:
    Theories about Capanahua's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.
Capanahua Language Structures:
    Capanahua linguistic profile and academic bibliography.

Capanahua Culture and History Links

Los Capanahua * Capanahua-Nuquencaibo * Los Capanahua:
    Information about the Capanahuas in Spanish.



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