Karipuna language (Panoan)

For other languages called Karipuna, see Karipuna language.

Karipuna is an extinct Panoan language formerly spoken in the state of Rondônia in Brazil. It may have been a dialect of Chácobo.^[1] It was also known as Eʼloê,^[2] as well as Jau-Navo and Jaunavô, based on the self-denomination Jaũn Àvo.^[3] It is primarily known from a number of wordlists recorded by various explorers of the Amazon region, including Johann Natterer and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius,^[4] as well as by the Rondon Commission.^[2]

Karipuna
Eʼloê
Jaũn Àvo
Native to	Brazil
Region	Rondônia
Ethnicity	Jau-Navo
Extinct	after 1948
Language family	Pano-Tacanan Panoan Mainline Nawa Bolivian Nawa Karipuna
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kuq (confuses this language with Tupian Karipuna, a dialect of Kawahíva)
Glottolog	kari1312

Vocabulary

The following is a short extract of Martius' larger Karipuna vocabulary, from Keller 1874.^[5]

Karipuna	Gloss
oni passna	water
jui	tree
cannati	bow