Nomatsiguenga language

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Nomatsiguenga
Native to Perú
Ethnicity Machiguenga
Native speakers
 6,500  (2003)[1]
Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Campa
      • Matsigenka
        • Nomatsiguenga
Language codes
ISO 639-3 not

Nomatsiguenga (Matsigenka) is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is close enough to Machiguenga to sometimes be considered dialects of a single language, especially given that both are spoken by the Machiguenga people. Most speakers are monolingual.

References

  1. ↑ Nomatsiguenga reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)


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