Kashibo language

Cashibo (Caxibo, Cacibo, Cachibo, Cahivo), Cacataibo, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Managua, or Hagueti is an indigenous language of Peru in the region of the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers. It belongs to the Panoan language family.

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Quick Facts Cashibo, Native to ...

Cashibo
Cacataibo
Native to	Peru
Ethnicity	Cashibo people
Native speakers	1,200 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Panoan Mainline Panoan Cashibo
Dialects	Cashibo Cacataibo Rubo / Isunbo Nocaman
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`cbr`
Glottolog	`cash1251`
ELP	Cashibo

Dialects are Kashibo (Kaschinõ), Rubo/Isunbo, Kakataibo, and Nokamán,^[2] which until recently had been thought to be extinct.

Phonology

Consonants

More information Bilabial, Alveolar ...

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	plain	lab.	Glottal
Plosive	p	t			k	kʷ	ʔ
Nasal	m	n		ɲ
Tap/Flap		ɾ
Affricate		t͡s		t͡ʃ
Fricative		s	ʂ	ʃ
Approximant	β̞			j		w

The consonant inventory includes both a bilabial approximant, realized as [β̞], and a labial-velar approximant /w/.

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Back vowels /o/ and /u/ are phonetically realized as less rounded; [o̜], [u̜].^[3]

Statistics

The language is official along the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers in Peru where it is most widely spoken. It is used in schools until third grade. There are not many monolinguals, although some women over the age of fifty are.

There is five to ten percent literacy compared to fifteen to twenty-five percent literacy in Spanish as a second language. A Cashibo-Cacataibo dictionary has been compiled, and there is a body of literature, especially poetry.

References

[1]
Cashibo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
[2]
Biondi, Roberto Zariquiey. 2013. Tessmann's <Nokamán>: a linguistic investigation of a mysterious Panoan group. Cadernos de Etnolingüística, volume 5, número 2, dezembro/2013.
[3]
Zariquiey Biondi, Roberto (2011). A Grammar of Kashibo-Kakataibo (Ph.D. thesis). La Trobe University. hdl:1959.9/524397.

Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Statistics

References

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