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Preferred term

pbhPanare language  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Panare is a Cariban language, spoken by approximately 3,000–4,000 people in Bolivar State in southern Venezuela. Their main area is South of the town of Caicara del Orinoco, south of the Orinoco River. There are several subdialects of the language. The autonym for this language and people is eñapa, which has various senses depending on context, including people, indigenous-people, and Panare-people. It is unusual in having object–verb–agent as one of its main word orders, the other being the more common agent–verb–object. It also displays the typologically "uncommon" property of an ergative–absolutive alignment in the present and a nominative–accusative alignment in the past.

Entry terms

  • E'ñapa Woromaipu

ISO 639-3 code

  • pbh

Notation

  • pbh

In other languages

  • E'ñepa

    French

  • Idioma panare

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/pbh

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