Yaminawá
The Yaminawá (Iaminaua, JaminawaYawanawa'') are an indigenous people who live in Acre (Brazil), Madre de Dios (Peru) and Pando ( Bolivia). Their homeland is Acre, Brazil. Name The Yaminawá translated to "people of the axe." They are also called the Iaminaua, Jaminawa, Yaminawá (in Brazil), and Yaminahua (in Peru and Bolívia), as well as Yuminahua, Yabinahua, Yambinahua, Yamanawa, and other variants. The Yaminawá name was given to them by outsiders. They have several autonyms including Bashonawá (''basho'' = "opossum"), Marinawá (''mari'' = "cutia", an agouti), Xixinawá (''xixi'' = "white coati"), or Yawanawá (''yawa'' = "wild boar"). Language The Yaminawá language belongs to the Panoan language family. Linguists estimate that less than 1600 people speak the language. Its ISO 639-3 code is YAA. Very few Yaminawá people speak Spanish or Portuguese, and their literacy rate is extremely low.
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Yaminawá Language
Yaminawa (Yaminahua) is a Panoan language of western Amazonia. It is spoken by the Yaminawá and some related peoples. Yaminawa constitutes an extensive dialect cluster. Attested dialects are ''two or more Brazilian Yaminawa dialects, Peruvian Yaminawa, Chaninawa, Chitonawa, Mastanawa, Parkenawa'' (= Yora or "Nawa"), ''Shanenawa'' (Xaninaua, = Katukina de Feijó), ''Sharanawa'' (= Marinawa), ''Shawannawa'' (= Arara), ''Yawanawá, Yaminawa-arara'' (obsolescent; very similar to Shawannawa/Arara), ''Nehanawa''†).David Fleck, 2013, Panoan Languages and Linguistics', Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History #99 Very few Yaminawá speak Spanish or Portuguese, though the Shanenawa have mostly shifted to Portuguese. Phonology The vowels of Yaminawa are /a, i, ɯ, u/. /i, ɯ, u/ can also be heard as [ɪ, ɨ, o]. Sharanawa, Yaminawa, and Yora have nasalized counterparts for each of the vowels, and demonstrate contrastive nasalization. is heard as an alloph ...
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