Amuesha

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Amuesha is another name for the Yaneshaʼ language, an Arawakan language spoken by the Yaneshaʼ (Amuesha) people of central Peru.

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Label Occurrences
Amuesha canonical 2

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
language
alsoKnownAs Amuesha language NERFINISHED
Yanesha language NERFINISHED
Yaneshaʼ NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Asháninka NERFINISHED
Ashéninka NERFINISHED
other Southern Arawakan languages
country Peru
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Yaneshaʼ NERFINISHED
glottologName Yaneshaʼ NERFINISHED
hasDialects eastern Yaneshaʼ NERFINISHED
northwestern Yaneshaʼ NERFINISHED
southwestern Yaneshaʼ NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode yane1238 NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticArea Amazonian foothills of the Andes NERFINISHED
hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn Peru NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
glottalized consonants
hasSpeakerPopulationEstimate several thousand speakers
ISO639-3Code ame
isPartOf Peruvian Amazon linguistic area NERFINISHED
languageFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED
Maipurean
region Junín Region NERFINISHED
Pasco Region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Amuesha people NERFINISHED
Yaneshaʼ people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Peru NERFINISHED
central Peru
status threatened
subclassOf Maipurean language NERFINISHED
subjectOf descriptive grammars
phonological studies
sociolinguistic studies
usedFor daily communication
oral literature
traditional rituals
usedIn bilingual education programs in Peru
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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