Mabenaro is a Tacanan language once spoken along the Madre de Dios River of Peru. It is known only from a list of 54 words which are not very well transcribed.[1] The vocabulary was described as similar to Tiatinagua.[2]

Mabenaro
Native toPeru
RegionDepartment of Madre de Dios
EthnicityMabenaro
Extinctafter 1922
Pano–Tacanan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmabe1235

Vocabulary

edit

Kinship terms

edit
Mabenaro kinship terms[2]
Mabenaro Gloss
dia man
wani woman
tata father
wanti mother
dodo brother
doda sister
deanawa son
ipona daughter
nana infant
kaʼabo boy
iyaro girl

References

edit
  1. Girard, Victor James (1971). Proto-Takanan phonology. Internet Archive. Berkeley, University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-09369-0.
  2. 1 2 Farabee, William Curtis (1922). Indian tribes of eastern Peru. Papers of the Peabody museum of American archaeology and ethnology, Harvard university ;vol. X. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum. p. 164.