Jaqaru language

E647042

The Jaqaru language is an indigenous Aymaran language spoken by a small community in the highlands of central Peru, notable for its complex morphology and close relation to the Kawki variety.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Jaqaru language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aymaran language
agglutinative language
indigenous language
morphologically complex language
classifiedAs Andean language
closeTo Kawki variety
country Peru
documentedBy linguists
ethnicGroup Jaqaru people NERFINISHED
glottocode jaqa1244
hasAlternativeName Jaqaro NERFINISHED
Jaqi
hasDialect Jaqaru proper
hasFeature case marking
complex morphology
evidentiality marking
person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
suffixing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasVariety Kawki
ISO639-3 jqr
languageFamily Aymaran
numberOfSpeakers small community
region central highlands of Peru
relatedTo Kawki language NERFINISHED
spokenBy bilingual speakers of Spanish and Jaqaru
spokenIn Lima Region NERFINISHED
Yauyos Province NERFINISHED
status endangered language
subfamilyOf Aymaran language family NERFINISHED
typologicalOrder SOV
undergoing language shift to Spanish
usedBy indigenous communities of central Peru
usedIn traditional community life
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (2)

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

Jaqi aru hasLinguisticRelation Jaqaru language
Jaqaru people language Jaqaru language