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Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chango.
Noun
chanku
- Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)
Derived terms
References
- Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 11