Mashco Piro language
| Mashco Piro | |
|---|---|
| Cujareño | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Ethnicity | Mashco Piro |
Native speakers | (20–100 cited 1976)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
cuj |
| Glottolog |
mash1270[2] |
Mashco Puro is a Maipurean language spoken in Peru. It is also called Cujareño. It is very similar to the Piro, with an estimated 60% inherent intelligibility.[1] Kaufman considered it a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may rather be a dialect of otherwise extinct Iñapari.
Language documentation is limited, since the Mascho Piro are highly nomadic hunter-gatherers[1] who actively avoid contact with outsiders. The name Cujareño has been associated with the Panoan languages, though without much evidence.
Notes
- 1 2 3 Mashco Piro at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mashco Piro". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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