Chácobo language
Chácobo is a Panoan language spoken by about 550 of 860 Chácobo people of the Beni Department northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia. Chácobo children are learning the language as a first language, but the Pakawara dialect is moribund. Karipuna may have been a variant; alternative names for it are Jaunavô and Éloe.
Several unattested extinct languages were reported to have been related, perhaps dialects. These include Capuibo and Sinabo/Shinabo of the Mamoré River. However, nothing is actually known of these purported languages.
Phonology
Consonants
- Sounds /t͡ʃ, ʃ/ may also be heard as palatalized when before vowels in free variation.
- /k/ may be heard as a voiced fricative when in between the positions of /ɨ/.
- /t͡ʃ/ assimilates to a retroflex when /ʂ/ is in the following syllable.
- /n/ can be heard as as a realization of the sequence /ni/.
Vowels
- /o/ may be heard as when occurring within the environment of high vowels.