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E’ñapa Woromaipu

A language of Venezuela

ISO 639-3: pbh

Population	3,540 (2001 census). 70%. Nearly all women monolingual; men bilingual in Spanish to varying degrees.
Region	Bolivar state, 150 mile perimeter south of Caicara de Orinoco, west of Cuchivero River. 2 groups: savana and highland. 20 or more settlements.
Language map	Venezuela, reference number 11
Alternate names	Abira, Eñapa, Eñepa, Eye, Panare, Panari
Classification	Carib, Northern, Western Guiana
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–25%. Grammar. NT: 2003.
Comments	E’ñepa or E’ñapa an ethnic name. OVS, VOS.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BAKSHI, Indira; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1998. "Vowel harmony and transitive verb clauses in Panare: where are the consonant-initial roots?."

CARLSON, Robert; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1989. "Genitive classifiers."

PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1993. "Nonconfigurationality and discontinuous expressions in Panare."

PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1994. "OVSu versus VSuO in Panare (Cariban): do syntax and discourse match?."

PAYNE, Doris L., author. 2006. "A contrastive study of Panare oral and written narratives."

PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1989. Transitivity and ergativity in Panare.

PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1990. "Transitivity and ergativity in Panare."

PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1990. Review of: The body in the mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination and reason, by Mark Johnson.

PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1991. "Medial clauses and interpropositional relations in Panare."

PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1995. "Object incorporation in Panare."