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Yawanawa Indian Language

Yawanawa is a Panoan language of South America, spoken by 200 people in western Brazil. It is an agglutinative language with SOV word order.



˜Our Online Yawanawa Materials –

Yawanawa Words:
    Our list of vocabulary words in the Yawanawa language, with comparison to words in other Panoan languages.
Yawanawa Pronunciation Guide:
    How to pronounce Yawanawa words.
Yawanawa Body Parts:
    Online and printable worksheets showing parts of the body in the Yawanahua language.

˜Yawanawa Language Resources –

Yawanawa Bible Translation:
    Scanned-in Yawanawa language materials from the Rosetta Project.
Language Museum: Yawanawa:
    Bible passage in Yawanawa.
Yawanawa Language:
    Demographic information on Yawanawa from the Ethnologue of Languages.

˜Yawanawa Culture and History Links –

The Yawanawá of Brazil:
    Articles on Yawanawa culture and traditions.
Yawanawa People:
    Encyclopedia articles on the Yawanawa Indians.
Yawanawá * Os Yawanawa:
    Information about the Yawanawas in Portuguese.



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