Achuar
Achual; Achuar-Shiwiar; Achuale; Achuara; Jívaro; Maina
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2,943 speakers in Ecuador, 2500 in Peru.
2012
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Ecuador, Peru
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2010
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Spoken by the Chuar and Jíbaro people, living in the basins of the Tigre, Corrientes, Pastaza, Huasaga, Manchari, Huitoyacu, and Situche rivers and the Masacuri and Anazo streams, in Loreto and Datem del Marañón Provinces, Loreto Region, Peru; also spoken in Ecuador.
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Spoken by the Chuar and Jíbaro people, living in the basins of the Tigre, Corrientes, Pastaza, Huasaga, Manchari, Huitoyacu, and Situche rivers and the Masacuri and Anazo streams, in Loreto and Datem del Marañón Provinces, Loreto Region, Peru; also spoken in Ecuador.
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Spanish, Quechua
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At least half of the population is bilingual in either Spanish or Quechua; and a smaller percentage speaks all three languages.
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There are 3,000 speakers in Peru. (Unchanged 2016.)
2009
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Ecuador; Peru;
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~35,000
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Although the Shuar are the second largest and one of the most studied Amazonian groups, their language has barely been studied.
2007
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Southeast, between the Pastaza and Maranon rivers, east of the present city of Cuenca along the contested border region with Peru, a rocky region covering approximately 25,000 square miles along the lower eastern slopes of the Andes.
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Southeast, between the Pastaza and Maranon rivers, east of the present city of Cuenca along the contested border region with Peru, a rocky region covering approximately 25,000 square miles along the lower eastern slopes of the Andes.
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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
- Diccionario Achuar-Shiwiar - CastellanoFast, Daniel, Ruby Fast and Gerhard Fast. 1996. "Diccionario Achuar-Shiwiar - Castellano." 36: 517. Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Online: http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/html/pubs/show_work.asp?id=2447.http://www.sil.org/americas/peru/html/pubs/show_work.asp?id=2447
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