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Shaninawa Indian Language (Shanenawa)

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

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



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