Chácobo language

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Chácobo
Spoken in: Bolivia 
Region: Magdalena
Total speakers: 550 (2000 SIL)
Language family: Panoan
 Southern Panoan
  Chácobo
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: cao

Chácobo is a Panoan language spoken by about 550 of 860 ethnic tribal Chácobo people of the Beni department of northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia. Chácobo children are learning the language as a first language.

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[edit] Examples[1]

[edit] Numerals

nicatsu 1
dafuira 2
unamarana 3
atchayuna 4
chayuna 5

[edit] Pronouns

hiasro I
miani you
zonihua he/she/it/they
noquirzo we
zunimato you (pl.)

[edit] Vocabulary

chii fire
huisruhuaina rain
jini water
mai earth
oriquiti food
osse moon
rsepo chicha
rsiqui maize
vari sun
vistima star

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. '^ Montaño Aragon, M. Guía etnográfica lingüística de Bolivia' La Paz: Editorial Don Bosco, 1987