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Shaninawa Indian Language (Shanenawa)

Shaninawa is a Panoan language of South America. Some linguists consider it a dialect of Katukina.
Shaninawa is spoken by about 200 people in Brazil. It is an agglutinative language with SOV word order.

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Shaninawa Language Resources

La Lengua Shaninawa:
Information on the Shaninawa language in Spanish.

Shaninawa Language Tree:
Theories about Shaninahua's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

House of Languages: Shanenawa:
Information about Shanenawa language usage.

Ethnologue: Yawanawa:
Demographic information about the Yawanawa and Shanenawa languages.

Shaninawa Culture and History

The Shanenawa Tribe:
Online ethnography of the Shanenawas of Brazil.

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

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