Urarina
Simacu; Shimacu; Itukale; Itucali; Kachá; Itucale; Urariña; Oruarina; Shimaku;
Isolate; South American
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2012
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The Urarina are to be found in the Loreto department on the Chambira, Urituyacu and Corrientes rivers, where they have lived for at least half a millennium, remaining relatively isolated due to the remoteness of their settlements and by choice. Despite all sorts of challenges to their cultural survival, language use in still vigorous in the group.
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The Urarina are to be found in the Loreto department on the Chambira, Urituyacu and Corrientes rivers, where they have lived for at least half a millennium, remaining relatively isolated due to the remoteness of their settlements and by choice. Despite all sorts of challenges to their cultural survival, language use in still vigorous in the group.
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2010
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Spoken around the rivers of Tigrillo, Patayacu, Chambira, and Corrientes, in the department of Loreto, in Peru.
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Spoken around the rivers of Tigrillo, Patayacu, Chambira, and Corrientes, in the department of Loreto, in Peru.
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Women are monolingual. (Unchanged 2016.)
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Peru;
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Loreto Department: Urarinas district, Pucayacu, Chambira, and Urituyacu rivers.
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Loreto Department: Urarinas district, Pucayacu, Chambira, and Urituyacu rivers.
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2003
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Department of Loreto, Province of Urarinas, District of Urarinas, along the Chambira River (headwater of the Maranon River) and along all its headwaters; several groups along the rivers Urituyacu (also headwater of the Maranon) and Corrientes
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Department of Loreto, Province of Urarinas, District of Urarinas, along the Chambira River (headwater of the Maranon River) and along all its headwaters; several groups along the rivers Urituyacu (also headwater of the Maranon) and Corrientes
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- "Language and Culture of the Urarina People" HRELP AbstractOlawsky, Knut. 2003. ""Language and Culture of the Urarina People" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=34.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=34
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