Sanapaná language

Sanapaná
Sanapana payvoma
Native to Paraguay
Ethnicity 2,270 Sanapaná people (2002 census)[1]
Native speakers
980 (2007)[1]
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. 1 2 ISO change request
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nuclear Sanapana". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. http://www.enlhet.net/pdf/nne28-enlhet-enenlhet.pdf
  4. http://pueblosoriginarios.com/sur/chaco/sanapana/sanapana.html


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