Jebero language

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The Jebero language is an indigenous Cahuapanan language traditionally spoken by the Jebero people in the Peruvian Amazon.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Jebero language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Cahuapanan language
Peruvian indigenous language
indigenous language
associatedWith Jebero culture
linked to: Bakairi culture

indigenous rights in Peru
belongsTo indigenous languages of South America
indigenous languages of the Amazon
closelyRelatedTo Chayahuita language
continent South America
country Peru
endangermentCause language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Jebero people
hasAlternativeName Chebero
Jevero
Sebero
Shiwilu
Xebero
Xevero
hasLinguisticResearch grammatical description
lexical documentation
phonological analysis
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
nasal vowels
oral vowels
simple consonant inventory
ISO639-3 jeb
languageBranch Cahuapanan
languageFamily Cahuapanan language family
locatedIn Amazon rainforest
morphologyType suffixing language
primaryContactLanguage Spanish
region Loreto Region
spokenBy Jebero people
spokenIn Peru
Peruvian Amazon
status endangered language
traditionalArea Huallaga River basin
Marañón River basin
linked to: Marañón Valley
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Jebero community
usedIn ritual speech
traditional oral literature
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Cahuapanan hasSubgroup Jebero language
Cahuapanan peoples hasLanguage Jebero language