Nomatsiguenga language

E655659

The Nomatsiguenga language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Nomatsiguenga people of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, closely associated with the broader Asháninka linguistic and cultural group.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nomatsiguenga language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language of the Americas
language
belongsToMacroArea South America
closelyAssociatedWith Asháninka people
linked to: Asháninka
closelyRelatedTo Asháninka language
country Peru
ethnicGroup Nomatsiguenga people
family Arawakan language family
linked to: Arawakan languages
hasAlternativeName Matsigenka-Nomatsiguenga (in some classifications)
linked to: Matsigenka

Nomatsigenga
hasBorrowingsFrom Spanish language
hasContactWith Spanish language
linked to: Spanish
hasDomain shamanic practices vocabulary
traditional ecological knowledge
hasEndonym Nomatsigenga
hasGrammaticalFeature aspectual distinctions
evidentiality distinctions
person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasISO639-3Code not
hasLinguisticArea Amazonian languages area
linked to: Amazonian languages
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
five-vowel system
simple consonant inventory
hasSpeakerPopulationStatus small population of speakers
isEndangered true
isSpokenAlong Perené River region
Tambo River region
isSpokenIn Cusco Region
Junín Region
isTaughtIn some bilingual intercultural education programs in Peru
isUsedBy Nomatsiguenga communities in the Peruvian Amazon
languageFamily Arawakan
linked to: Arawakan languages
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Peruvian Amazon
sharesCulturalSphereWith Asháninka linguistic and cultural group
linked to: Asháninka
status vulnerable
subfamily Southern Arawakan
subgroup Campan languages
usedIn daily communication in Nomatsiguenga communities
oral tradition
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Asháninka language relatedTo Nomatsiguenga language
Satipo Province languageSpoken Nomatsiguenga language
Matsigenka language closelyRelatedTo Nomatsiguenga language
Machiguenga language closelyRelatedTo Nomatsiguenga language