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23

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Personal communication about Shanenawa
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Critically Endangered

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23

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Ethnic Population

800

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The 23 possibly are semi-speakers. Pilar Valenzuela (personal communication) reports that Glaucia Candido (a linguist who worked with the Shanenawas) asked a Shanenawa friend the question, and he reports that today there are only 23 fluent speakers, from a population of 800 Shanenawas. Adults (including Candido's friend who is reporting this) speak the language but not with fluency and the children understdand but do not speak it.

Year of info

2016

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Brazil

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Endangered

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300

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Year of info

2010

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-8.1014, -70.2129

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Critically Endangered

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9

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Ethnic Population

360

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9 (Moore 2006). Ethnic population: 360 (2002 FUNAI). There may be confusion here; Moore (2006:40) lists under "Pano family" Shanenawa with [300] as its population, but no number of speakers given, but lists also under "Pano family" Arara / Shawanauá, saying of this: "Arara, Shanenawá, Yamináwa, Yawanawá, Yawanawá dlalects of one language" with 9? speakers and a populations of 300.

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2013

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Brazil

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300

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361

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Shanenawá (Katukina Shanenawá)

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2012

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
    Crevels, Mily. 2012. "Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock Is Ticking." In The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Hans Henrich Hock et al.. 167-234. Mouton de Gruyter.
  3. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. Descrição Morfossintática da Língua Shanenawa
    Gláucia Vieira Cândido. Descrição Morfossintática Da Língua Shanenawa. PhD thesis, São Paulo: Universidad Estadual de Campinas, 2004.