Kashibo language
Panoan language spoken in Peru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cashibo (Caxibo, Cacibo, Cachibo, Cahivo), Cacataibo, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Managua, or Hagueti is an indigenous language of Peru in the region of the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers. It belongs to the Panoan language family.
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Dialects are Kashibo (Kaschinõ), Rubo/Isunbo, Kakataibo, and Nokamán,[2] which until recently had been thought to be extinct.
Phonology
Consonants
The consonant inventory includes both a bilabial approximant, realized as [β̞], and a labial-velar approximant /w/.
Vowels
Back vowels /o/ and /u/ are phonetically realized as less rounded; [o̜], [u̜].[3]
Statistics
The language is official along the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers in Peru where it is most widely spoken. It is used in schools until third grade. There are not many monolinguals, although some women over the age of fifty are.
There is five to ten percent literacy compared to fifteen to twenty-five percent literacy in Spanish as a second language. A Cashibo-Cacataibo dictionary has been compiled, and there is a body of literature, especially poetry.
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