Panare
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| Panere eñapa, eñepa |
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| Spoken in: | Venezuela | |
| Region: | just south of the Orinoco River, Estado Bolívar | |
| Total speakers: | 3,000-4,000 | |
| Language family: | Carib Northern Panere |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sai | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | pbh | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Panare is a Cariban language, spoken by approximately 3,000-4,000 people in central Venezuela, Estado Bolívar (Bolivar State), generally south of the town of Caicara del Orinoco, south of the Orinoco River. There are several subdialects of the language. The autonym for this language and people is eñapa, which has various senses depending on context, including 'people', 'indigenous-people', and 'Panare-people'. It is unusual in having Object Verb Agent as one of its main word orders, the other being the more common Agent Verb Object.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report
- Abstract (in Spanish and English) of a paper on constituent order in Panare - LAS CORRELACIONES DE ORDEN EN PANARE, LENGUA OVS
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