Paunaka
Facts
- Language: Paunaka
- Alternate names: Paunaca, Pauna-Paikone, Pauna-Paicone, Paiconeca
- Language code: pnk
- Language family: Maipurean, Southern, Southern Outlier, Mojo (SIL classification)
- Number of speakers:
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script: Unwritten.
More information:
The Paunaka are now culturally part of the Chiquitano, but they still consider themselves as a separate group within the Chiquitano complex, and the language is completely unrelated to Chiquitano.
Aikhenvald (1999a: 67) gives Paiconeca and Pauna as separate extinct languages.