Yine language

E155585

Yine language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken primarily by the Yine people in the Peruvian Amazon.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yine language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
South American language
indigenous language
alternateName Jaqaru
surface form: Chontaquiro

Contaquiro
Pira
Pira-Yine
Piro
Pira-Yine
surface form: Piro-Yine

Simirinche
belongsTo Maipurean branch of Arawakan
continent South America
country Peru
ethnicGroup Yine people
hasCommunity villages in Cusco Region
villages in Madre de Dios Region
villages in Ucayali Region
hasContactWith Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
hasDomain mythology and oral history
traditional ecological knowledge
hasFeature evidentiality distinctions
numeral classifiers
possessive marking on nouns
hasGlottocode piro1248
hasInfluenceFrom Spanish loanwords
hasISO639-3Code pib
hasLinguasphereCode 83-ARB-d
hasMorphology rich verbal morphology
suffixing morphology
hasPhonology contrastive nasalization
simple consonant inventory
hasTypology predominantly agglutinative
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
isPartOf Amazonian languages
languageFamily Arawakan languages
languageStatus endangered language
region Amazon rainforest
spokenAlong Madre de Dios River
Ucayali River
Urubamba River
spokenBy Yine people
spokenIn Peru
Peruvian Amazon
subfamily Arawakan languages
surface form: Southern Arawakan languages
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arawakan languages hasLanguage Yine language
Ucayali Region languageSpoken Yine language