Iñapari language

Iñapari
Spoken in Peru
Native speakers 4  (1999)
Language family
Arawakan
  • Southern
Official status
Official language in Perú
Regulated by No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-3 inp

Iñapari is a critically endangered indigenous South American language spoken by just two hundred people in Perú along the Las Piedras river near the mouth of the Sabaluyoq river. The language is already extinct in neighboring Bolivia. All forty remaining speakers are bilingual in Spanish and none have any children, which will likely lead to its extinction once the speakers die. The Iñapari language currently has a published dictionary.[1][2]

Notes

  1. ^ Datos de la lengua Iñapari. Parker, Stephen G., compiler. 1995. Documento de Trabajo, 27. Yarinacocha: Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 208 p.
  2. ^ A sketch of Iñapari phonology Parker, Steve. 1999. International Journal of American Linguistics 65: 1-39.

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