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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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Native Speakers Worldwide

4,297

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5,297

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297 speakers (and ethnic population) in Colombia (2001); 4000 speakers among an ethnic population of 5000 people in Peru.

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2012

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Colombia, Peru

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4,000

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2010

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-3.3598,-72.3779

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Peru; Colombia; Brazil

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Spoken in the basin of the Putumayo River in Amazonas, Peru (on the border with Colombia) and the Ampiyacu River in the province of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, in the department of Loreto, Peru; there are also speakers, to a lesser extent, in Colombia and Brazil.

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Spoken in the basin of the Putumayo River in Amazonas, Peru (on the border with Colombia) and the Ampiyacu River in the province of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, in the department of Loreto, Peru; there are also speakers, to a lesser extent, in Colombia and Brazil.

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~5690

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6000

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2,000 monolinguals. (Unchanged 2016.)

Year of info

2009

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Colombia; Peru;

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5,295

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4,000 speakers in Peru

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Peru and Colombia

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Peru, northeast, along the headwaters of the Amazon River from Iquitos up to the Brazilian border Colombia, Department of Amazonas, on the Tucuchira River near Leticia.

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Peru, northeast, along the headwaters of the Amazon River from Iquitos up to the Brazilian border Colombia, Department of Amazonas, on the Tucuchira River near Leticia.

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2005

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-3.5,-72.0

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