Sanapaná language

Sanapaná
Sanapana payvoma
Native to	Paraguay
Ethnicity	2,270 Sanapaná people (2002 census)^[1]
Native speakers	980 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Mascoian Sanapaná
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`spn`
Glottolog	`nucl1655`^[2]

Sanapana (sanapana payvoma^[3]) is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco. Use is vigorous, and it is a language of instruction in primary schools..

Sanapaná people call themselves nenlhet;^[4] Enxet people call Sanapaná people saapa'ang; Guaná people call them kasnapan; and Enlhet people, kelya'mok.

References

1 2 ISO change request
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nuclear Sanapana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ http://www.enlhet.net/pdf/nne28-enlhet-enenlhet.pdf
↑ http://pueblosoriginarios.com/sur/chaco/sanapana/sanapana.html

Languages of Paraguay

Official languages	Spanish Guaraní

Indigenous languages	Aché Ayoreo Chamacoco Enlhet Enxet Guana Iyo'wujwa Chorote Maka Nivaclé Ñandeva Pai Tavytera Sanapaná Toba Qom Toba-Maskoy

Mataco–Guaicuru languages

Matacoan	Chorote Maká Nivaclé Wichí

Guaicuruan	Abipón Guachí Kadiweu Mocoví Payaguá Pilagá Toba

Mascoian	Angaité Enlhet Enxet Kaskihá Maskoy Sanapaná

Charruan	Balomar Chaná Charrúa Güenoa

Italics indicate extinct languages

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