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Preferred term

pnkPaunaka  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Pauna language, Paunaka, is an almost unknown Arawakan language in South America. It is an extremely endangered language, which belongs to the southern branch of the Arawakan language family and it is spoken in the Bolivian area of the Chiquitanía, near Santa Cruz and north of the Chaco region. The suffix -ka is a plural morpheme of the Chiquitano language, but has been assimilated into Pauna.

Entry terms

  • Pauna language

ISO 639-3 code

  • pnk

Notation

  • pnk

In other languages

  • Paunaka

    German

  • Idioma paunaka

    Spanish

URI

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

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