Atsawaka language

Atsawaka
Atsahuaca-Yamiaca
Native to	Peru
Region	Carama River
Extinct	(date missing) [1]
Language family	Panoan Mainline Panoan Nawa Madre de Dios Atsawaka
Dialects	Atsawaka Yamiaka
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	atc
Linguist List	atc
Glottolog	atsa1242

Atswawaka, also called Atsahuaca, or Atsawaka-Yamiaka, is an extinct Panoan language of Peru. Atsahuaca is the name that the tribe calls themselves, meaning "children of the manioc" in their own language. Alternate spellings of the name of the Atswakaka language include: Atsawaka, Atsawaca, Astahuaca, Yamiaca, Yamiaka, Atsawaka-Yamiaka, and Atsahuaca-Yamiaca.

There were 20 speakers in 1904.

Alphabet

The Atswawaka alphabet uses 24 letters commonly, and has 8 characters used for vowels. ^[2]

Common character(s)	Alternate version	IPA symbol
a		a
e	i, ï, y	i
i		i
u	o	ʊ ~ o
an	ã	ã
en	ẽ	ẽ
in	ĩ	ĩ
un	õ	õ
c	k, qu	k
d	r	d
ch	č	tʃ
f		ɸ ~ β
h	j	h
m		m
n		n
p		p
qu		k
r		ɾ
s		s
x	sh, š	ʃ ~ ʂ
t		t
ts		ts
w	hu	w
y		j

Vocabulary

Man - t'harki

Woman - tcinani

Yes - ei

No - tcama

Tea - ita

Tree - isthehowa

^[3]

References

1. Atsawaka at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
2. "Atsahuaca Pronunciation and Spelling Guide". www.native-languages.org/. Native Languages of the Americas website. 2015. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
3. Farabee, William Curtis (1922). Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Museum. pp.  162.