Yaminahua language

Yaminahua
Spoken in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
Ethnicity Yaminawá people
Native speakers 1400  (date missing)
Language family
Pano–Tacanan
  • Panoan
    • Amawak–Jaminawa
      • Yaminahua
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yaa

The Yaminahua language is a Panoan language in Western Amazonia.

Linguists estimate 1244 people speak the language. Its ISO 639-3 code is YAA. Very few Yaminawá people speak Spanish or Portuguese, and their literacy rate is extremely low.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ "Yaminahua." Ethnologue. (retrieved 25 June 2011)

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