Mashco Piro language

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Mashco Piro
Cujareño
Native to Peru
Ethnicity Mashco Piro
Native speakers
unknown (20–100 cited 1976)[1]
Arawakan
  • Southern
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cuj
Glottolog mash1270[2]

Mashco Puro is a Maipurean language spoken in Peru. It is also called Cujareño. It is very similar to the Piro, with an estimated 60% inherent intelligibility.[1] Kaufman considered it a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may rather be a dialect of otherwise extinct Iñapari.

Language documentation is limited, since the Mascho Piro are highly nomadic hunter-gatherers[1] who actively avoid contact with outsiders. The name Cujareño has been associated with the Panoan languages, though without much evidence.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mashco Piro at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
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