Yaneshaʼ language

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Yaneshaʼ language is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken by the Yaneshaʼ people in the central Peruvian Amazon.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Yanesha' language 1
Yaneshaʼ language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
South American language
indigenous language
alternativeName Amoesha
Amuesha
Yaneshaʼ
Yanešaʼ
associatedWith Yaneshaʼ cultural identity
basicWordOrder SVO
belongsTo Amazonian languages
country Peru
endangermentStatus definitely endangered
ethnicity Huitoto (Witoto)
surface form: Yaneshaʼ
family Arawakan languages
surface form: Arawakan language family
geneticClassification Maipurean
hasDialects various local varieties
hasDomain agricultural terminology
forest-related vocabulary
hunting terminology
hasGlottocode yane1238
hasLanguageAcademy Yaneshaʼ language committees in communities
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish
hasMorphologicalType predominantly agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant inventory
contrastive nasalization
hasSpeakerCommunity villages along the Ene River
villages along the Palcazu River
villages along the Perené River
hasVowelSystem five-vowel system
ISO639-3 ame
languageFamily Arawakan
region Junín Region
Pasco Region
spokenBy Yaneshaʼ people
spokenIn Peru
central Peruvian Amazon
status vulnerable
subfamily Upper Orinoco Arawakan
surface form: Southern Arawakan
subjectOf grammatical descriptions by field linguists
linguistic documentation projects in Peru
usedFor daily communication in Yaneshaʼ communities
oral literature
traditional rituals
usedIn bilingual education programs in Peru
storytelling
traditional songs
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 Yaneshaʼ language
Amuesha language alternativeName Yaneshaʼ language
this entity surface form: Yanesha' language