Wariapano language

Wariapano
Pano
Native to	Peru
Native speakers	moribund (2013)[1] extinct 1991 (Pano)
Language family	Panoan Mainline Panoan Nawa Chama Wariapano
Dialects	Shetebo Piskino Pano †
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pno
Glottolog	pano1255

Wariapano (Huariapano), also known as Pano, Panavarro, and Pánobo, is a nearly extinct Panoan language of Peru. The last known speaker of the Pano dialect died in the spring of 1991.^[2]

There are three attested dialects: Shetebo and Piskino, which are no longer in daily use, and Pano itself, which is extinct.^[3]

Phonology

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Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Alveopalatal	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive		p	t				k
Affricate			ts	tʃ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʃ	ʂ			h
	voiced	β
Nasal		m	n
Flap			ɾ
Approximant		w				j

/β/ fluctuates between a stop and a fricative. /h/ is only distinctive word-initially.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		ɯ
Mid			o
Open		a

Sample text

Neno ebi iki; nato nojkon papa yosibonin mananti manax. Jara ebi nijawetianbi bismanojkoyai kai. Mawaxon pairira ebi bismanojkonox iki. Nojkon tita manan, nojkon papaboni manan. Ebira nijawetianbi bismanojkoyamai

— Arquímedes Sinuiri Nunta

References

1. Wariapano at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Parker, Steve (April 1994). "Coda Epenthesis in Huariapano". International Journal of American Linguistics. 60 (2): 95–119. doi:10.1086/466224. ISSN 0020-7071.
3. Fleck, David W. (2013). Panoan languages and linguistics. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History. ISBN 978-0-9852016-2-3.
4. Parker, Steve (January 1998). "On the Phonetic Duration of Huariapano Rhymes". Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session. 42 (1). doi:10.31356/silwp.vol42.04. ISSN 0361-4700.
5. Bennett, Ryan (December 2013). "The uniqueness of metrical structure: rhythmic phonotactics in Huariapano". Phonology. 30 (3): 355–398. doi:10.1017/S0952675713000195. ISSN 0952-6757.