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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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22,517

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22,517

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2012

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Peru

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Vulnerable

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16,085

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2010

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-8.4289,-74.6411

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Peru

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Spoken in the basins of the Ucayali, Pisqui, Madre de Dios, and Rímac rivers and the Genepanshea ravine, in the departments of Huánuco, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Lima, in Peru.

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Spoken in the basins of the Ucayali, Pisqui, Madre de Dios, and Rímac rivers and the Genepanshea ravine, in the departments of Huánuco, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Lima, in Peru.

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26,000

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(Unchanged 2016.) (2013 unchanged). Ethnologue (2016) lists Capanahua [kaq] as a distinct language: 50 (Crevels 2007), ethnic population: 350 (Crevels 2007). It is a dialect of Shipibo-Konibo (Fleck 2013).

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2009

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Peru;

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Northeast middle Ucayali River area, Painaco, Requena, Sur Bolognesi, Pisqui (on the other side of Contamana).

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Northeast middle Ucayali River area, Painaco, Requena, Sur Bolognesi, Pisqui (on the other side of Contamana).

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~16,100

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~16,100

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Despite many years of contact and their proximity to the city of Pucallpa, the Shipibo-Conibo have preserved their language and culture.

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2007

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Peru

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on the banks of the Ucayali River

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on the banks of the Ucayali River

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2005

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-7.5,-75.0

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  2. Eine Grammatik des Shipibo-Conibo mit Textbeispiel
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