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Cashinahua Indian Language (Kaxinawá)

Cashinahua is a Panoan language of South America, spoken by 2000 people in Peru and Brazil.



˜Our Online Cashinahua Materials –

Cashinahua Words
     Our list of vocabulary words in the Cashinahua language, with comparison to words in other Jivaroan languages.
Cashinahua Numbers:
    Worksheet showing how to count in the Cashinahua language.

˜Cashinahua Language Resources –

Cashinahua Language:
     Scanned-in Cashinahua materials including grammar, phonology, and texts.
Human Rights: Cashinahua:
     Translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into Cashinahua.
La Lengua Kashinawa:
     Information on the Cashinahua language including a linguistic map of Peru. Page in Spanish.
Cashinahua:
     Demographic information on Cashinahua from the Ethnologue of Languages.
Cashinahua:
     Wikipedia article on the Cashinahua language.

˜Cashinahua Culture and History Links –

Kashinawa Culture
     Articles on the history and traditions of the Cashinahua tribe.
Los Cashinahua * Cashinahua-Junikuin:
     Information about the Cashinahuas in Spanish.

˜Books For Sale On The Cashinahuas –

How Real People Ought to Live: The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru:
     An interesting ethnography of the Cashinahua tribe.



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