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2,000-3,000

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A grammar of Bora with special attention to tone
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,000-3,000

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"Spoken by between 2,000 and 3,000 people, about 1,000 of whom live in northern Peru" (p. 1). "In Colombia, about 150 Bora people live on the Ígara-Paraná River and about 100 on the Caquetá River at Mariápolis, Remanso, Santa Isabel, Las Palmas and living in scattered houses" (p. 1). "Today there are few monolingual Bora speakers ... All those between 50 and 60 years of age are more or less flunet in Spanish for daily needs (although they still prefer to speak Bora). All those under 50 are quite fluent in Spanish." "All Bora children now learn Spanish. Some learn Spanish as their first language and don't go on to learn Bora as a second language, while other children do. Many Bora children still learn Bora as their first language and Spanish as a second language ... at present there are still many of all ages speaking it [Bora]." (p. 5)

Year of info

2012

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Peru, Colombia

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Spanish

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"Today there are few monolingual Bora speakers ... All those between 50 and 60 years of age are more or less flunet in Spanish for daily needs (although they still prefer to speak Bora). All those under 50 are quite fluent in Spanish." "All Bora children now learn Spanish. Some learn Spanish as their first language and don't bo on to learn Bora as a second language, while other children do. Many Bora children still learn Bora as their first language and Spanish as a second language ... at present there are still many of all ages speaking it [Bora]." (p. 5)

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,000

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Year of info

2010

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Coordinates

-1.5818,-70.5651

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Peru; Colombia

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Spoken around the Peruvian-Colombian border, in the basins of the Putumayo, Sumón, and Ampiyacu rivers, in the provinces of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Maynas, and San Antonio del Estrecho, in the Loreto Region, Peru.

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Spoken around the Peruvian-Colombian border, in the basins of the Putumayo, Sumón, and Ampiyacu rivers, in the provinces of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Maynas, and San Antonio del Estrecho, in the Loreto Region, Peru.

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,390

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There are 2,330 speakers in Peru (2000).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Brazil; Colombia; Peru;

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

850

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Ethnic Population

4,070

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No known L1 speakers in Brazil; 100 in Colombia; 750 in Peru.

Year of info

2016

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<2,500

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Ethnic Population

3701

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Colombia and Peru

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Ethnic Population

3650

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The speaker number is Colombia isn't known and in Peru there are 2,000 speakers. In Peru, the mean age of the speakers is 20-30.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Colombia and Peru

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Location description

Colombia: Department of Amazonas, near the mouth of the Cahuinari River, on the Caqueta and Igara-Panara rivers, La Providencia; Peru: northeast, along the Ampiyacu and Yaquasyacu rivers, some along the Maranon near Iquitos and partly along the Putumayo

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Institutional support

In Peru, there are some bilingual primary and secondary schools but the classes are generally taught in Spanish

Speakers’s attitudes

Strong linguistic awareness

Standard orthography

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Colombia: Department of Amazonas, near the mouth of the Cahuinari River, on the Caqueta and Igara-Panara rivers, La Providencia; Peru: northeast, along the Ampiyacu and Yaquasyacu rivers, some along the Maranon near Iquitos and partly along the Putumayo

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Year of info

2005

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-2.16666666667,-72.3333333333

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,828

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