- Source: Cahuapanan languages
The Cahuapanan languages are a language family spoken in the Amazon basin of northern Peru. They include two languages, Chayahuita and Jebero, which are spoken by more than 11,300 people. Chayahuita is spoken by most of that number, but Jebero is almost extinct.
Language contact
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kechua, Arawak, Kandoshi, Pukina, and Karib language families due to contact.
Varieties
Chayahuita or Chawi (also known or rendered as Balsapuertino, Cahuapa, Chayabita, Chayawita, Chayhuita, Tshaahui, Paranapura, Shayabit)
Chayahuita dialect
Cahuapana dialect
Jebero (also known or rendered as Chebero, Xebero, Xihuila)
The extinct language Maynas can be identified as close to Chawi.
Other Cahuapanan varieties that are listed by Loukotka (1968):
Yamorai - spoken on the Sillai River in Loreto Department
Ataguate - extinct language of the same region, once spoken on the Aipena River and around Lake Atagua (unattested)
Pamdabegue - once spoken on the Aipena River and Paranapura River in Loreto Department (unattested)
Miguira (Shuensampi, Miquira, Mikirá) - extinct language once spoken in the single village of Maucallacta on the Paranapura River
Proto-language
= Rojas-Berscia (2019)
=Rojas-Berscia (2019) gives the following forms for Proto-Kawapanan, along with their respective Shawi, and Shiwilu reflexes.
= Valenzuela (2011)
=Valenzuela (2011) gives the following Swadesh list table for the Proto-Cahuapana, Jebero, and Chayahuita.
Vocabulary
= Loukotka (1968)
=Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Cahuapanan languages.
Further reading
Hart, H. L. (1988). Diccionario chayahuita-castellano (Serie Lingüística Peruana, 29). Yarinacocha: Ministerio de Educación and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Ethnologue
- Cahuapanan languages
- Chicham languages
- Macro-Jibaro languages
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Puquina language
- Munichi language
- Zaparoan languages
- Languages of Peru
- Maynas language
- Mikira language
