Kanamarí language

Kanamarí
Katukina-Kanamari
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonas
Ethnicity	3,340 (2006–2008)[1]
Native speakers	1,300 (2006)[1]
Language family	Harákmbut–Katukinan Katukinian Kanamarí
Dialects	Kanamari Katukina
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: knm – Kanamari kav – Katukina
Glottolog	kana1291[2]

Kanamarí, or Katukina-Kanamari, is a Katukinian language spoken by about 650 individuals in Amazonas, Brazil. It is considered endangered.

The two principal varieties, Kanamari (Canamarí) and Katukina (Catuquina), are mutually intelligible, and have both been confused with neighboring languages with the same or similar names.^[3]

Synonyms and dialect names include Tshom-djapa, Tsohon-djapa, Wiri-dyapá, Pidá-dyapá, Kutiá-dyapá (Kadiu-diapa, Cutiadapa), Tucun-diapa, Bendiapa, Parawa.

References

1. Kanamari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Katukina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kanamari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Harald Hammarström (2013) Review of the Ethnologue, 16th Ed.

• Queixalós, Francesc 2010. Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari. In: Gildea, Spike and Francesc Queixalós (eds.), Ergativity in Amazonia . 2010. v, 319 pp. (pp. 235–284)
• Queixalós, Francesc 2012. The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive. In: Gilles Authier and Katharina Haude (eds). Ergativity, Valency and Voice. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. (pp. 227–258)