Karipuna language (Panoan)


Karipuna is an extinct Panoan language formerly spoken in the state of Rondônia in Brazil. It may have been a dialect of Chácobo. It was also known as Eʼloê, as well as Jau-Navo and Jaunavô, based on the self-denomination Jaũn Àvo. It is primarily known from a number of wordlists recorded by various explorers of the Amazon region, including Johann Natterer and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, as well as by the Rondon Commission.

Vocabulary

The following is a short extract of Martius' larger Karipuna vocabulary, from Keller 1874.
KaripunaGloss
oni passnawater
juitree
cannatibow