- Panare
language
name=Panere
nativename=eñapa, eñepa
states=Venezuela
region=just south of the Orinoco River, Estado Bolívar
speakers=3,000-4,000
familycolor=American
fam1=Carib
fam2=Northern
iso2=sai
iso3=pbhPanare is a
Cariban language, spoken by approximately 3,000-4,000 people inBolivar State in southernVenezuela . Their main area is South of the town of Caicara del Orinoco, south of theOrinoco River . There are several subdialects of the language. The autonym for this language and people is "eñapa", which has various senses depending on context, including 'people', 'indigenous-people', and 'Panare-people'. It is unusual in havingObject Verb Agent as one of its main word orders, the other being the more commonAgent Verb Object .References
Paul Henley 1982 - "The Panare, Tradition and Change on the Amazonian Frontier"
External links
* [http://www.revele.com.ve/programas/indice/ria.php?rev=boletin_de_linguistica&id=11753 Abstract (in Spanish and English) of a paper on constituent order in Panare] - "LAS CORRELACIONES DE ORDEN EN PANARE, LENGUA OVS"
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