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Carapana Indian Language (Karapana)

Carapana is a Tucanoan language of South America, spoken by 600 people in Colombia and Brazil. It is a tone language with SOV word order.



˜Carapana Language Resources –

Carapana Linguistic Description * Carapana Orthography * Carapana Phonology * Carapana Grammar * Carapana Pronunciation:
    Scanned-in Carapana language materials from the Rosetta Project.
La Lengua Karapaná:
    Information on Carapana including linguistic maps of South America. Page in Spanish.
Carapana Language:
    Demographic information on Carapana from the Ethnologue of Languages.

˜Carapana Culture and History Links –

Los Carapana:
    Information about the Carapanas in Spanish.



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