Mabenaro language

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Mabenaro
Native to Peru
Region Department of Madre de Dios
EthnicityMabenaro
Extinct after 1922
Pano–Tacanan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog mabe1235

Mabenaro is a Tacanan language once spoken along the Madre de Dios River of Peru. It is known only from a list of 54 words which are not very well transcribed. [1] The vocabulary was described as similar to Tiatinagua. [2]

Contents

Vocabulary

Kinship terms

Mabenaro kinship terms [2]
MabenaroGloss
diaman
waniwoman
tatafather
wantimother
dodobrother
dodasister
deanawason
iponadaughter
nanainfant
kaʼaboboy
iyarogirl

References

  1. ↑ Girard, Victor James (1971). Proto-Takanan phonology. Internet Archive. Berkeley, University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-09369-0.
  2. 1 2 Farabee, William Curtis (1922). Indian tribes of eastern Peru. Papers of the Peabody museum of American archaeology and ethnology, Harvard university ;vol. X. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum. p. 164.
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