Machiguenga language

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The Machiguenga language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Machiguenga (Matsigenka) indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon.

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Machiguenga language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
South American language
indigenous language
alternateName Machigenga language NERFINISHED
Machiguenga-Matsigenka NERFINISHED
Matsigenka language NERFINISHED
belongsToBranch Campan branch of Arawakan
closelyRelatedTo Asháninka language NERFINISHED
Nomatsiguenga language NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Peru
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Machiguenga NERFINISHED
Matsigenka NERFINISHED
family Arawakan language family NERFINISHED
hasCommunity communities along Urubamba River
communities in Manu National Park
hasDialects Matsigenka dialects
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish language
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasMorphologicalFeature rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
hasRevitalizationEffort community-based language programs in Peru
hasSpeakerCommunityType rural communities
semi-isolated Amazonian communities
hasWordOrder SOV word order
ISO639-3Code mcb
languageFamily Arawakan languages
languageStatus minority language
recognizedBy Peruvian Ministry of Education as indigenous language
region Cusco Region NERFINISHED
Madre de Dios Region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Machiguenga people NERFINISHED
Matsigenka people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Peru NERFINISHED
Peruvian Amazon NERFINISHED
subfamily Southern Arawakan NERFINISHED
subjectOf descriptive grammars
ethnolinguistic studies
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
traditional rituals
usedIn bilingual education programs in Peru
usedInDomain mythology and storytelling
traditional medicine knowledge transmission
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Machiguenga language Machiguenga language