Mabenaro language
| Mabenaro | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Department of Madre de Dios |
| Ethnicity | Mabenaro |
| 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]
Vocabulary
[edit]Kinship terms
[edit]| Mabenaro | Gloss |
|---|---|
| dia | man |
| wani | woman |
| tata | father |
| wanti | mother |
| dodo | brother |
| doda | sister |
| deanawa | son |
| ipona | daughter |
| nana | infant |
| kaʼabo | boy |
| iyaro | girl |
References
[edit]- ^ Girard, Victor James (1971). Proto-Takanan phonology. Internet Archive. Berkeley, University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-09369-0.
- ^ a b 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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