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"Collaborative Research: Kokama-Kokamilla and Omagua: Documentation, Description and (Non-)Genetic Relationships" NSF DEL Abstract
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youngest speaker is 80 years old

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2010

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Amazon

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7

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During the course of fieldwork carried out in the summers of 2010 and 2011 in San Joaquín de Omaguas and the urban center of Iquitos by UC Berkeley linguists Zachary O'Hagan, Clare Sandy, Tammy Stark and Vivian Wauters, 7 Omagua speakers were located, ranging in age from (at the time of writing) 75 to 92. Additional speakers may live in San Joaquín de Omaguas, nearby San Salvador de Omaguas (the two principal Omagua communities in Peru from the latter 19th century onward) and in the area surrounding Tefé, Brazil (Grenand & Grenand 1997).

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100

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2010

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Peru

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Department of Loreto, Peru.

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166-256?

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Peru: 10 to 100 in Peru (1976 SIL). Ethnic population: 627 (1976). Brazil: 156 (2000 ISA) may refer to the whole ethnic population. Ethnic population: 156.

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2009

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Brazil; Peru;

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Peru: Omaguas near Iquitos. Brazil: Amazonas.

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Peru: 10 (2011), ethnic population: 630 (1976). Brazil: No known L1 speakers, ethnic population: 160 (2000 ISA).

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2016

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Peru, Brazil

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Spanish, Cocama-Cocamillla

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Kukama-Kukamiria [cod], Spanish [spa].

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Until recently it was thought that Omagua speakers above 40 years of age used to understand their parents, but no longer speak the language themselves. According to Lev Michael (p.c. 2010), however, in Peru only two speakers still remain today (possibly more in Brazil). Few people out of an ethnic population of 347 people speak this language while 2 people speak it in Peru.

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2012

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Brazil, Peru

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2005

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-4.0,-73.5

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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. "Collaborative Research: Kokama-Kokamilla and Omagua: Documentation, Description and (Non-)Genetic Relationships" NSF DEL Abstract
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