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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.



˜Yaminahua Language Resources –

Yaminawa Words:
    Our list of vocabulary words in the Yaminawa language, with comparison to words in other Panoan languages.
Yaminawa Animal Words:
     Illustrated glossary of animal words in the Yaminawa language.
Yaminawa Language:
    Scanned-in Yaminawa materials including grammar, phonology, and texts.
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.
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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