Sanapaná language

Sanapana is spoken by around half of all Sanapana people, who call themselves , and is still being transmitted to children in the two largest communities, La Esperanza and Anaconda, who grow up monolingual in Sanapana before they go to school, where they learn Spanish. The language is also reported to be in everyday use, including in religious contexts. == Classification ==

Sanapana is classified as a member of the Mascoian (Enlhet-Enenlhet) languages, distributed in the Gran Chaco region. They are considered to have evolved from a dialect continuum. == Phonology and orthography ==

Sanapana has three vowels and 13 consonants. Consonants Orthographical equivalents are written in . Long phonemes are written doubled. The sequence is "often" written as . == Morphology ==

Noun Sanapana noun morphology is simple in comparison with that of the verb. Nouns are frequently used as bare stems without any additional morphemes. == Notes ==