Urarina language
| Urarina | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Loreto Region, Urarinas district. |
| Ethnicity | Urarina people |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2002)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ura |
| Glottolog |
urar1246[2] |
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Urarina is a language spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are around 3,000 speakers.[1] It uses a Latin script. It is also known as Itucali, Simacu or Shimacu.[1]
It has a canonical word order of object–verb–subject.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 3 Urarina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Urarina". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "WALS Online - Language Urarina". Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ↑ "WALS Online - Chapter Order of Subject, Object and Verb". Retrieved 11 January 2017.
Further reading
- Wise, Mary Ruth. (1999). "Small Language Families and Isolates in Peru" in The Amazonian Languages. Dixon, R. M. W. and Aikhenvald, Alexandra (ed.)
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