Karipuna language (Panoan)
Extinct Panoan language
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Karipuna is an extinct Panoan language formerly spoken in the state of Rondônia in Brazil. It may have been a dialect of Chácobo.[2] It was also known as Eʼloê,[1] as well as Jau-Navo and Jaunavô, based on the self-denomination Jaũn Àvo.[3] It is primarily known from a number of wordlists recorded by various explorers of the Amazon region, including Johann Natterer and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius,[4] as well as by the Rondon Commission.[1]
Vocabulary
The following is a short extract of Martius' larger Karipuna vocabulary, from Keller 1874.[5]
| Karipuna | Gloss |
|---|---|
| oni passna | water |
| jui | tree |
| cannati | bow |
