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Where is Sanapaná spoken?

Sanapaná is a Lengua-Mascoy language, spoken in Paraguay. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Sanapaná is spoken

Sanapaná is spoken in one country: Paraguay.

Country
Paraguay

On the map, Sanapaná is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Sanapaná.

How many people speak Sanapaná?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Sanapaná sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Sanapaná as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Lengua-Mascoy
  2. Eastern Enlhet-Enenlhet
  3. Sanapaná

Related languages

Other languages in the Eastern Enlhet-Enenlhet group:

More about Sanapaná

Codes: ISO 639-3 spn, Glottolog sana1298. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Questions about Sanapaná

Where is Sanapaná spoken?

Sanapaná is spoken in Paraguay. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Sanapaná in?

Glottolog places Sanapaná in the Lengua-Mascoy family, in the branch Eastern Enlhet-Enenlhet.

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