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Name: Capanahua
Type: Language
Alternate Name: Kapanawa
Spoken in: Peru
Number of speakers: 390 (2000). No monolinguals. Ethnic population: 400 (2000 W. Adelaar) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 120 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 387 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: kaq
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Tacanan (Takánan), Panoan
Parent Subgroup: Shipibo; North-Central Panoan (ncpn)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable

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