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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Amuesha canonical 8

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
language
alsoKnownAs Amuesha language
Yanesha language
linked to: Yaneshaʼ language

Yaneshaʼ
closelyRelatedTo Asháninka
Ashéninka
linked to: Asháninka

other Southern Arawakan languages
country Peru
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Yaneshaʼ
glottologName Yaneshaʼ
hasDialects eastern Yaneshaʼ
linked to: Yaneshaʼ

northwestern Yaneshaʼ
southwestern Yaneshaʼ
hasGlottocode yane1238
hasLinguisticArea Amazonian foothills of the Andes
hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn Peru
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
glottalized consonants
hasSpeakerPopulationEstimate several thousand speakers
ISO639-3Code ame
isPartOf Peruvian Amazon linguistic area
languageFamily Arawakan
linked to: Arawakan languages

Maipurean
region Junín Region
Pasco Region
spokenBy Amuesha people
Yaneshaʼ people
spokenIn Peru
central Peru
status threatened
subclassOf Maipurean language
linked to: Maipurean languages
subjectOf descriptive grammars
phonological studies
sociolinguistic studies
usedFor daily communication
oral literature
traditional rituals
usedIn bilingual education programs in Peru
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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