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Sanapaná language

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Native to
  
Paraguay

Language family
  
Mascoian Sanapaná

Glottolog
  
nucl1655

Native speakers
  
980 (2007)

ISO 639-3
  
spn

Ethnicity
  
2,270 Sanapaná people (2002 census)

Sanapana (sanapana payvoma) is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco. Use is vigorous, and it is a language of instruction in primary schools..

Sanapaná people call themselves nenlhet; Enxet people call Sanapaná people saapa'ang; Guaná people call them kasnapan; and Enlhet people, kelya'mok.

References

Sanapaná language Wikipedia