Amuesha language

E174998

The Amuesha language, also known as Yanesha', is an Arawakan language spoken by the Yanesha' people of the central Peruvian Amazon.

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Label Occurrences
Amuesha language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language of the Americas
language
alternativeName Amuesha
Yaneshaʼ language
surface form: Yanesha' language

Yaneshaʼ
surface form: Yanesha’
closelyRelatedTo Asháninka language
other Southern Arawakan languages
continent South America
country Peru
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Yaneshaʼ people
surface form: Yanesha' people
hasAlternativeSpelling Yaneša'
Yanešaʼ
surface form: Yaneša’
hasCommunityEfforts bilingual education initiatives
language revitalization programs
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars
dictionaries
phonological studies
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish language
hasMorphologicalFeature possessive marking on nouns
verbal affixation
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature complex vowel system
contrastive nasalization
hasSociolinguisticFeature bilingualism with Spanish among speakers
hasSpeakerAttitudes growing interest in preservation among younger Yanesha'
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3 ame
languageFamily Arawakan languages
languageStatus threatened
linguisticArea Amazonian languages area
recognizedBy Peruvian Ministry of Education
surface form: Peruvian intercultural bilingual education system
region Junín Region
Pasco Region
central Peruvian Amazon
spokenBy Yaneshaʼ people
surface form: Yanesha' people
subfamily Upper Orinoco Arawakan
surface form: Southern Arawakan
usedBy Yanesha' communities in the Peruvian Amazon
usedIn daily communication in some Yanesha' communities
oral literature of the Yanesha' people
traditional rituals of the Yanesha' people
usedInEducation primary-level bilingual education in some communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Arawakan languages hasLanguage Amuesha language