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Atsawaka language

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Native to
  
Peru

Extinct
  
(date missing)

ISO 639-3
  
atc

Region
  
Carama River

Dialects
  
Atsawaka Yamiaka

Language family
  
Panoan Mainline Panoan Nawa Madre de Dios Atsawaka

Atswawaka, also called Atsahuaca, or Atsawaka-Yamiaka, is an extinct Panoan language of Peru. Atsahuaca is the name that the tribe calls themselves, meaning "children of the manioc" in their own language. Alternate spellings of the name of the Atswakaka language include: Atsawaka , Atsawaca, Astahuaca, Yamiaca, Yamiaka, Atsawaka-Yamiaka, and Atsahuaca-Yamiaca.

There were 20 speakers in 1904.

Alphabet

The Atswawaka alphabet uses 24 letters commonly, and has 8 characters used for vowels.

References

Atsawaka language Wikipedia