Shuar Chicham

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Shuar Chicham is the indigenous language of the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, belonging to the Jivaroan language family.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Shuar 3
Shuar-Chicham 1

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language
language
alternateName Shuar NERFINISHED
Shuar language NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Achuar-Shiwiar NERFINISHED
Aguaruna NERFINISHED
Huambisa NERFINISHED
country Ecuador
culturalRole marker of Shuar identity
medium of traditional knowledge transmission
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Shuar NERFINISHED
hasDialects regional varieties
hasGlottocode shua1257
hasISO639-3Code jiv
hasPhonology contrastive nasalization
rich consonant inventory
hasStandardizedOrthography true
languageFamily Jivaroan language family NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
verb-final tendencies
memberOf Jivaroan languages NERFINISHED
recognizedBy Ecuadorian government NERFINISHED
region Amazon Basin NERFINISHED
spokenBy Shuar people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Ecuador NERFINISHED
Ecuadorian Amazon NERFINISHED
subjectOf anthropological studies
linguistic documentation projects
usedFor cultural practices
daily communication
oral tradition
usedIn bilingual education programs in Ecuador
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (6)

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

Shuar language alternativeName Shuar Chicham
this entity surface form: Shuar-Chicham
Shuar Federation of Ecuador ethnicGroupRepresented Shuar Chicham
this entity surface form: Shuar
Sucúa hasIndigenousPopulation Shuar Chicham
this entity surface form: Shuar
Puyo hasNearbyIndigenousGroups Shuar Chicham
this entity surface form: Shuar
Shuar language nativeName Shuar Chicham