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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5,000

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Ethnic Population

8679

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Peru

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

11,000

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Year of info

2010

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Coordinates

-11.8888,-72.9052

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Peru

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Spoken in the basins of the Urubamba, Sensa, Picha, Yamariato, Mantalo, Yavero, and Madre de Dios rivers (among others), in the departments of Cusco, Madre de Dios, Ayacucho, and Lima, in Peru.

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Spoken in the basins of the Urubamba, Sensa, Picha, Yamariato, Mantalo, Yavero, and Madre de Dios rivers (among others), in the departments of Cusco, Madre de Dios, Ayacucho, and Lima, in Peru.

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

10,100

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Peru;

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Location description

Cusco, Madre de Dios, and Ucayali regions; Urubamba, Camisea, Picha, Manu, Timpia, Tigompinia, Kompiroshiato, and Mishagua rivers.

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Cusco, Madre de Dios, and Ucayali regions; Urubamba, Camisea, Picha, Manu, Timpia, Tigompinia, Kompiroshiato, and Mishagua rivers.

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5910

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Ethnic Population

13,000

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Year of info

2016

Location and Context

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Peru

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Spanish

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Used as L2 by Caquinte [cot], Nanti [cox], and Yine [pib].

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~5,910

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13,000

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Children no longer acquire the language. Nevertheless, Machiguenga is not endangered on the Manu River, where the Machiguenga teachers from the Urubamba River area are interested in implementing a formalised bilingual education programme.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Peru

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Location description

along the Upper and Lower Urubamba and its tributaries, along the Manu River and its tributaries, on the left-bank tributaries of the Madre de Dios, and some families on the headwaters of the Colorado River.

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along the Upper and Lower Urubamba and its tributaries, along the Manu River and its tributaries, on the left-bank tributaries of the Madre de Dios, and some families on the headwaters of the Colorado River.

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Year of info

2005

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-12.0,-72.6666666667

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

10,149

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