Karipuna language (Rondônia)

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Not to be confused with Karipuna language (Amapá).
Karipuná
Karipuná de Rondônia
Karipuná do Guaporé
Native to Brazil
Region Rondônia
Native speakers
 10  (2007)[1]
Pano–Tacanan
  • Panoan
    • Southern Panoan
      • Karipuná
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kuq

Karipuná (Caripuna) is a language spoken by a dozen individuals in Rondônia, Brazil. It is evidently the Panoan language of Rondônia of that name reported in Loukotka (1968:174), Kaufman, and other sources.[2] However, Ethologue identifies it as a Tupian language very similar to Kagwahiva.[1] Campbell and Grondona note of Ethnologue that "there is confusion with this name, assigned to two separate language families, which needs to be resolved."[3] It may be that the people speak a Panoan language but have come to identify themselves as Kagwahiva, an identity shared by several neighboring Tupian peoples.

Alternative names for the language are Jaunavô (Jau-Navo), Shakáre/Jacaria/Yacaría, and Éloe. Ethnologue describes Jacaria as a dialect, adds the names Ah’e and Kagwahiva, and adds Pama (Pamana) as a second dialect; this Pama perhaps refers to the neighboring extinct Pama (Pamainá) listed in Loukotka.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Karipuná reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír. 1968. Classification of South American Indian Languages Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, UCLA.
  3. ↑ Campbell, Lyle, and Verónica Grondona (eds). 2012. The indigenous languages of South America: a comprehensive guide. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.



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