Aguaruna language

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The Aguaruna language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Aguaruna (Awajún) people of northern Peru, closely related to the Shuar language of Ecuador.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jivaroan language
indigenous language of the Americas
language
belongsToMacroArea South America
closelyRelatedTo Shuar language
country Peru
culturalDomain Aguaruna ethnobotany
Aguaruna oral literature
Aguaruna traditional knowledge
ethnicity Aguaruna
Awajún
geneticClassification Jivaroan
hasAlternativeName Awajún language
surface form: "Aguajún language"

Awajún language
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasCommunityEfforts language maintenance
language revitalization
hasDialects various regional varieties
hasGlottocode agua1253
hasLinguisticResearchOn lexicon
morphology
phonology
syntax
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
tone or pitch accent-like distinctions
hasStandardization orthographic norms promoted in Peru
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable or threatened
isMinorityLanguageIn Peru
iso639-3Code agr
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars
dictionaries
ethnolinguistic studies
languageFamily Jivaroan languages
region Peruvian Amazon
surface form: "Amazonas Region"

Cajamarca Region
Loreto Region of Peru
surface form: "Loreto Region"

San Martín Region
spokenBy Aguaruna people
Aguaruna people
surface form: "Awajún people"
spokenIn Peru
spokenInRegion northern Peru
usedAlongside Spanish language
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
traditional rituals
usedInEducation bilingual intercultural education programs in Peru
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (3)

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

Achuar-Shiwiar language closelyRelatedTo Aguaruna language
Shuar relatedTo Aguaruna language
Shuar relatedTo Aguaruna language
this entity surface form: "Huambisa language"