Huambisa

E265767

Huambisa is an indigenous Jivaroan language spoken by the Huambisa people of the northern Peruvian Amazon.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Huambisa canonical 3
Campa 2
Huambisa (Wampis) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jivaroan language
indigenous language
language
belongsToMacroArea South America
closelyRelatedTo Achuar-Shiwiar
Aguaruna
Shuar
country Peru
endangeredFactors language shift to Spanish among youth
pressure from Spanish
ethnicityOfSpeakers Huambisa people
geographicDistribution northern Amazonian Peru near the Ecuadorian border
hasAlternativeName Huambisa-Shuar
Huambisa
surface form: Huambiza

Wambisa
Huambisa language
surface form: Wampis (language)
hasCulturalAssociation Huambisa cosmology
Huambisa oral literature
Huambisa traditional knowledge
hasDomain indigenous education
local governance in Huambisa communities
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order (tendency)
agglutinative morphology
contrastive tone or stress-related prominence (reported)
rich verbal morphology
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative–accusative (reported for Jivaroan)
hasPhonologicalFeature glottalized consonants (reported in Jivaroan languages)
relatively small vowel inventory
rich consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity Huambisa communities along tributaries of the Marañón River
ISO639-3Code hub
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars by field linguists
ethnolinguistic studies of the Huambisa people
languageFamily Jivaroan
languageStatus endangered language
minority language
region Amazon rainforest
spokenBy Huambisa people
spokenIn Peru
Peruvian Amazon
surface form: northern Peruvian Amazon
subclassOf Aguaruna language
surface form: Aguaruna–Huambisa language

Jivaroan languages
usedFor daily communication in Huambisa communities
oral tradition
usedIn traditional rituals
usedInCountryOfficialPrograms bilingual intercultural education in Peru
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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

Jivaroan hasMemberLanguage Huambisa
Asháninka language alternativeName Huambisa
this entity surface form: Campa
Aguaruna relatedEthnicGroup Huambisa
Huambisa hasAlternativeName Huambisa
this entity surface form: Huambiza
Amazonas Region (Peru) hasIndigenousLanguages Huambisa
this entity surface form: Huambisa (Wampis)
Asháninka (Campa) alternativeName Huambisa
subject surface form: Asháninka
this entity surface form: Campa