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.