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Carapana Indian Language (Karapana)

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

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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.

House of Languages: Carapana
Information about Carapana language usage.

Carapana Language:
Demographic information on Carapana from the Ethnologue of Languages.

Carapano Language Tree:
Theories about Carapana's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Carapana Language Structures:
Carapana linguistic profile and academic bibliography.

Carapana Prayers:
Translations of the Lord's Prayer into the Carapana language.

Carapana Culture and History Links

Tribes of Central Brazil:
Map showing where the Karapana people live in Brazil.

The Karapanã Tribe:
Online ethnography of the Karapanas of Brazil.

Los Carapana

Karapana:
Information about the Carapanas in Spanish.

The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia:
Anthropology book on the social structures of the Carapana and other Tucanoan tribes.

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