Panoan is a branch of the larger Pano-Tacanan family, spoken by roughly 40,000 to 50,000 people across the southwestern Amazon in western Brazil, eastern Peru and northern Bolivia. It comprises some 18 living and 14 extinct languages, divided between the Mayoruna branch, including Matses, Matis and Kulino, and a larger Mainline Panoan branch that includes Shipibo, Kashinawa, Yaminawa and Marubo among its more widely documented members.
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RegionWestern Brazil, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia 1 Speaker CountSource (citing Fleck) gives a 2013 range of 40,000 to 50,000 native speakers; midpoint recorded here since the atlas stores a single figure, not a range. Proto-Language StatusProto-Panoan has been reconstructed, most recently by de Oliveira (2014) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Source Wikidata: Panoan
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Wikidata: Panoan
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Wikidata: Panoan
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Wikipedia: Panoan LanguagesLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Panoan (also Pánoan, Panoano, Panoana, Páno) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia.
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1. Wikipedia: Panoan Languages
WikipediaWikipedia, Panoan languages, introduction
is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia.
Wikipedia, Panoan languages, section Proto-language
Below are Proto-Panoan reconstructions by de Oliveira (2014).
Infobox, Native speakers field
40,000-50,000 (2013)
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