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Native Speakers Worldwide

500

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

Native Speakers Worldwide

500

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

500

Non-monolingual speakers

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Crevels' Campa Caquinte (Poyenisati).

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

250

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-11.146,-73.4765

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

< 500

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(Dirección General de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe y Rural del Minedu, 2012)

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Location and Context

Countries

Peru

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Location description

Spoken in the basin of the Huipaya River, in Satipo Province (Junín Region) and La Convención Province (Cusco Region), Peru.

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Script (Writing system)

Latin

Other writing systems

Spoken in the basin of the Huipaya River, in Satipo Province (Junín Region) and La Convención Province (Cusco Region), Peru.

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

300

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (2000). (Unchanged 2016.)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Peru;

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Location description

Cusco and Junin regions; Poyeni, Mayapo, and Picha rivers, upper Poyeni River, which flows into Tambo Yori and Agueni rivers which become the Mipaya River flowing into the Urubamba; a few on Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, affluents of the Urubamba.

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Cusco and Junin regions; Poyeni, Mayapo, and Picha rivers, upper Poyeni River, which flows into Tambo Yori and Agueni rivers which become the Mipaya River flowing into the Urubamba; a few on Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, affluents of the Urubamba.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

250-300

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Ethnic Population

250-300

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Peru

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Location description

Peru, Department of Junin, on the Poyeni River; Department of Cuzco, on the Agueni River.

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Speakers' attitudes

There is a state bilingual school.

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Peru, Department of Junin, on the Poyeni River; Department of Cuzco, on the Agueni River.

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Endangered

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300

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  1. 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
    2012. "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."
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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  7. Morphology of Caquinte (Preandine Arawakan)
    Swift, Kenneth E. Morphology of Caquinte (Preandine Arawakan). Master thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, 1985.
  8. Morfología del caquinte (arawak preandino)
    Townsend, Elaine M., Marlene Ballena d. and Kenneth E. Swift. 1988. "Morfología Del Caquinte (arawak Preandino)." 25: 216. Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Online: http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/html/pubs/show_work.asp?id=580.
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