Jivaroan

E47506

Jivaroan is a small indigenous language family of the northwestern Amazon, spoken primarily in parts of Ecuador and Peru.

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Generate an image of Jivaroan (Jivaroan is a small indigenous language family of the northwestern Amazon, spoken primarily in parts of Ecuador and Peru.)

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Jivaroan canonical 13
Jivaroan peoples 8
Jivaro 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family
language family
classificationConsensus widely accepted as a distinct family
country Ecuador
Peru
documentationStatus moderately documented
endangermentStatus some member languages vulnerable or endangered
ethnicGroupAssociated Achuar people
Aguaruna people
Huambisa people
Shuar people
familyColor American
geneticClassificationStatus generally considered a small independent family
geographicDistribution eastern Ecuador
northern Peru
hasAlternativeName Jivaro
linked to: Jivaroan

Jivaroan languages
hasMemberLanguage Achuar-Shiwiar
Aguaruna
Huambisa
Shuar
hasMemberLanguageCountApprox 4 main languages
hasProposedRelation Andean languages
Cahuapanan
Macro-Jibaroan
linguisticArea Northwestern Amazonia
locatedIn northwestern Amazon
macroArea South America
primaryCountries Ecuador
Peru
region Amazon rainforest
researchField Amazonian linguistics
spokenBy indigenous peoples of Ecuador
indigenous peoples of Peru
spokenIn Ecuador
Peru
subclassOf South American language family
typologicalFeature predominantly suffixing morphology
verb-final tendencies in some languages
usedFor daily communication within communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Latin script (for some member languages)

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Referenced by (24)

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

Shuar languageFamily Jivaroan
Shuar people partOf Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan
Jivaroan hasAlternativeName Jivaro
linked to: Jivaroan
Achuar people subgroupOf Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan
Shuar Federation of Ecuador hasEthnicFocus Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan
Shuar language languageFamily Jivaroan
Aguaruna ethnolinguisticGroup Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan
Chicham languages spokenBy Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan
Chicham languages languageBranchOf Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan
Achuar-Shiwiar languageFamily Jivaroan
Huambisa languageFamily Jivaroan
Huambisa people partOf Jivaroan cultural complex
linked to: Jivaroan
Wampis languageFamily Jivaroan
Chicham Shuar languageFamily Jivaroan
Aguajun languageFamily Jivaroan
Santiago River basin ethnolinguisticGroup Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan
Shiwiar language hasAlternativeName Jivaro Shiwiar
linked to: Jivaroan
Wambisa languageFamily Jivaroan
Wambisa hasLinguisticHeritage Jivaroan
Huambisa-Shuar partOf Jivaroan peoples
linked to: Jivaroan