Urarina is a language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are around 3,000 speakers...
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The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin (Loreto) who inhabit the valleys of the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers....
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Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate (category Articles containing Urarina-language text)
Advanced Studies, ISBN 0-901282-02-2 Olawsky, Knut J. (2006), A Grammar of Urarina, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 9783110190205 Pavlík, Radoslav...
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Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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Grammar of Urarina (First ed.). De Gruyter. p. 3. ISBN 978-3-11-019020-5. Retrieved 21 January 2021. Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South...
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confluence) Pre-Proto-Urarina (Ucayali and Marañón confluence) Pre-Proto-Cahuapanan (Huallaga and Marañón confluences) Urheimat of other language families:: 821 ...
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(2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Urarina, Arawak, Zaparo, and Leko language families due to contact. A word list by Tessmann (1930)...
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Culture of South America (section Languages)
shamanism are common, as noted among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia. Portuguese and Spanish are the primary languages of the continent. The majority of South...
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Peru has many languages in use, with its official languages being Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. Spanish has been in the country since it began being taught...
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(15) Tupian (70, including Guaraní) Tuxá (Brazil: Bahia, Pernambuco) † Urarina (also known as Shimacu, Itukale, Shimaku) Vilela Wakona † Warao (Guyana...
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Takana, Puinave-Nadahup, Taruma, Tupi, Urarina, Witoto-Okaina, Yaruro, Zaparo, Saliba-Hodi, and Tikuna-Yuri language families due to contact. However, these...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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Kaufman (2007) posits the following membership. The unclassified languages Urarina, Puelche, Sabela, Taushiro, Omurano are included in the Kawapanan...
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Object–verb–subject word order (redirect from OVS language)
object–verb–subject such as Äiwoo, Guarijio, Hixkaryana, Urarina, the constructed language Klingon, and to some extent Tapirapé. Although not dominant...
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(Morris Swadesh and others, with Cahuapanan, Urarina, Puelche, and maybe Huarpe). The unclassified language Candoshi has also been linked to Chicham, as...
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Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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Verb–subject–object word order (redirect from VSO language)
Mesoamerican languages, such as the Mayan languages and Oto-Manguean languages many Nilotic languages (including Nandi and Maasai) Many languages, such as...
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Subject–verb–object word order (redirect from SVO language)
known languages, after SOV. Together, SVO and SOV account for more than 87% of the world's languages. The label SVO often includes ergative languages although...
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rainforest. Like other indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, such as the Urarina, plants, especially trees, hold a complex and important interest for the...
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Subject–object–verb word order (redirect from SOV language)
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...
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Object–subject–verb word order (redirect from OSV language)
object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) is a classification of languages, based on whether the structure predominates in pragmatically neutral...
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similarities with the Kulle, Omurano, Taushiro, Urarina, Arawak, Cholon-Hibito, Jaqi, and Quechua language families due to contact. Apart from some brief...
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Department of Loreto (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
home to many Amazonian indigenous peoples such as the Amhuacas and the Urarina. According to the 2007 Peru Census, the mother tongue of most of the residents...
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Demographics of Peru (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
Examples of indigenous peoples residing in eastern Peru include the Shipibo, Urarina, Cocama, and Aguaruna, to name just a few. European descendants constitute...
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Indigenous peoples of the Americas (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022. Dean, Bartholomew (2009). Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia. Gainesville: University...
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Documentation of Urarina is underway as of 2006, but Puelche and Huarpe are extinct. Kaufman (1994) linked Huarpe instead to the Muran languages and Matanawi...
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associated with the customary practice of brideservice, as seen among the Urarina of northeastern Peru. During the Song Dynasty in medieval China, matrilocal...
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Weaving (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
referencing the Urarina's primordial past. Urarina mythology attests to the centrality of weaving and its role in engendering Urarina society. The post-diluvial...
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Urarinas District is one of five districts of the province Loreto in Peru. In addition to Jivaroan-speaking peoples, a major indigenous Amazonian group...
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