Paunaka language

E618305

The Paunaka language is an endangered Arawakan language traditionally spoken by the Paunaka people of eastern Bolivia.

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Label Occurrences
Paunaka language canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
endangered language
indigenous language of the Americas
alternateName Paunaca NERFINISHED
Paunaka (Arawakan) NERFINISHED
associatedPeople Paunaka NERFINISHED
belongsToBranch Bolivian Arawakan languages NERFINISHED
classificationStatus well-attested Arawakan language
continent South America
country Plurinational State of Bolivia NERFINISHED
countryOfficialLanguageContext minority language in a Spanish-dominant country
culturalRole marker of Paunaka ethnic identity
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentCause language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Paunaka people NERFINISHED
family Arawakan language family NERFINISHED
geneticRelation related to Baure language
related to Mojo languages
hasMorphology possessive marking on nouns
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonology contrastive nasalization
simple consonant inventory
hasSpeakers very small elderly population
isIndigenousTo Bolivian lowlands NERFINISHED
languageFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED
languageOf Paunaka people NERFINISHED
languageShiftTo Spanish language
linguisticTypology predominantly agglutinative
macroArea South America NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Baure language NERFINISHED
Chiquitano language NERFINISHED
Spanish NERFINISHED
primaryContactLanguage Spanish
region Beni Department NERFINISHED
Santa Cruz Department NERFINISHED
revitalizationEfforts community-based documentation and teaching projects
shiftPattern younger generations predominantly speak Spanish
spokenIn Bolivia NERFINISHED
eastern Bolivia
status severely endangered
subfamily Southern Arawakan NERFINISHED
UNESCOStatus severely endangered
useDomain home and community contexts
vitality critically low number of speakers
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Baure language hasNeighborLanguage Paunaka language