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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking.
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518

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732

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Year of info

2012

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782

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2010

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-12.5867,-69.0161

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Peru; Bolivia

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Spoken in the basin of the Madre de Dios River, near Puerto Maldonado in Peru, and around the Tambopata River and its tributaries (also in Peru), as well as in the basin of the Beni River, in the areas near the cities of Rurrenabaque and Riberalta in Bolivia.

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Spoken in the basin of the Madre de Dios River, near Puerto Maldonado in Peru, and around the Tambopata River and its tributaries (also in Peru), as well as in the basin of the Beni River, in the areas near the cities of Rurrenabaque and Riberalta in Bolivia.

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1,200

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Year of info

2007

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Amazon region, Bolivia and Peru

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Portachuelo is the "Bolivian nucleus" of speaker population

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Portachuelo is the "Bolivian nucleus" of speaker population

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1,770

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1,300 in Bolivia (2000 SIL). Population total all countries: 1,770. Ethnic population: 1,300 in Bolivia (2000 SIL).

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2009

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Bolivia; Peru;

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Threatened

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1090

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940

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500 in Bolivia (Crevels 2007), ethnic population 940 (2006 PIB). Total users in all countries: 1,090. 590 in Peru (2007 census), ethnic population 1090 (2007 census).

Year of info

2016

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Peru, Bolivia

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Spanish

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~725

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805

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In Peru, there are 225 speakers out of an ethnic group of the same size; in Bolivia there are about 500 speakers out of an ethnic group of 580.

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2007

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Bolivia and Peru

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Bolivia, departments of La Paz, Beni and Pando, provinces of Iturralde, Ballivian, Vaca Diez and Madre de Dios, on the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers; Peru, along the rivers Madre de Dios and Tambopata and their headwaters in three settlements: Sonene, Palma Real and Infierno.

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Bolivia, departments of La Paz, Beni and Pando, provinces of Iturralde, Ballivian, Vaca Diez and Madre de Dios, on the Beni and Madre de Dios rivers; Peru, along the rivers Madre de Dios and Tambopata and their headwaters in three settlements: Sonene, Palma Real and Infierno.

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2005

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-11.0,-66.0

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