Machiguenga language
| Machiguenga | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Perú |
| Ethnicity | 13,000 Machiguenga (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 6,200 (2007)[1] |
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Arawakan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: mcb – Machiguenga cox – Nanti (Pucapucari) |
| Glottolog |
mats1245[2] |
Machiguenga (Matsigenka) is a major Arawakan language of Peru. It is close enough to Nomatsiguenga to sometimes be considered dialects of a single language, especially given that both are spoken by the Machiguenga people. Nanti is partially mutually intelligible but ethnically distinct.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Machiguenga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Nanti (Pucapucari) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Matsi-Nan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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