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Yaminawa Indian Language (Yaminahua)

Yaminawa is a Panoan language of South America, spoken by more than a thousand people in Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. It is an agglutinative language with SOV word order.

˜Our Online Yaminawa Materials –

Yaminawa Words:
Our list of vocabulary words in the Yaminawa language, with comparison to words in other Panoan languages.

Yaminawa Pronunciation Guide:
How to pronounce Yaminawa words.

Yaminawa Animal Words:
Illustrated glossary of animal words in the Yaminawa language.

Yaminawa Body Parts:
Online and printable worksheets showing parts of the body in the Yaminahua language.

˜Yaminahua Language Resources –

Yaminahua Language

Yaminahua Linguistic Description

Idioma Yaminahua

Yaminahua Map

Yaminahua Grammar
Yaminahua Phonology

Yaminahua Syntax

Yaminahua Orthography

Yaminahua Story

Yaminahua Bibliography:
Scanned-in Yaminawa language materials from the Rosetta Project. (Most are in Spanish.)

Language Museum: Yaminahua

Yaminawa Genesis Translation:
Bible passage in Yaminawa.

La Lengua Yaminawa:
Information on Yaminawa including linguistic maps of Peru and South America. Page in Spanish.

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

˜Yaminawa Culture and History Links –

The Yaminawá of Brazil:
Articles on Yaminawa culture and traditions.

Jamináwa Culture:
Overview of the Yaminawa Indian culture.

In Search of Ritual: Tradition, Outer World and Bad Manners in the Amazon:
Anthropological article on the Yaminawa tribe.

Os Yaminawá

Yaminawa:
Information about the Yaminawas in Portuguese.

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