Chácobo-Pakawara language

Chácobo-Pakawara is a Panoan language spoken by about 550 of 860 ethnic tribal Chácobo people of the Beni Department northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia, and (as of 2004) 17 of 50 Pakawara. Chácobo children are learning the language as a first language, but the Pakawara dialect is moribund. Karipuna may have been a variant; alternative names are Jaunavô (Jau-Navo, Jaũn Àvo) and Éloe.

Several unattested extinct languages were reported to have been related, perhaps dialects. These include Capuibo and Sinabo/Shinabo of the Mamoré River. However, nothing is actually known of these purported languages.

• Sounds /t͡ʃ, ʃ/ may also be heard as palatalized [t͡ʃʲ, ʃʲ] when before vowels in free variation.
• /k/ may be heard as a voiced fricative [ɣ] when in between the positions of /ɨ/.
• /t͡ʃ/ assimilates to a retroflex [t͡ʂ] when /ʂ/ is in the following syllable.
• /n/ can be heard as [ɲ] as a realization of the sequence /ni/.

• /o/ may be heard as [u] when occurring within the environment of high vowels.

• Tallman, Adam J. (2018). A grammar of Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon (Ph.D. thesis). The University of Texas at Austin. doi:10.26153/tsw/1343. hdl:2152/74212.

• Lenguas de Bolivia Archived 2019-09-04 at the Wayback Machine (online edition)
• New Testament in Chácobo
• Chácobo (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
• Pacahuara (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)