Murui Huitoto
[aka Murui, Murui Witoto, Huitoto Murui]Classification: Witotoan
·threatened
- PLACES
- Colombia, Peru,
Language metadata
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Murui, Murui Witoto, Huitoto Murui, Bué, Bue, Murai, Witoto, Huitoto, Murui-Witoto |
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Witotoan |
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ISO 639-3 |
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huu |
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Language information by source
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
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Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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7800
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1,000 in Peru, decreasing. Very few monolinguals.
(Unchanged 2016.)
- DATE OF INFO
- 1995
- PLACES
- Colombia; Peru; Brazil;
- ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Loreto Region, Ampiyacu, Putumayo, and Napo rivers; north of Amazon river between Iquitos, Peru and Leticia, Colombia south, Caquetá River north.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “South America” (103-196) . Mily Crevels (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
- MORE ON VITALITY
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There is a bilingual program in two or three schools on the Ampiyacu River. Children do acquire the language but many don't use it.
- PLACES
- Peru and Colombia
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Peru, northeast, along the Napo, Ampiyacu, and Putumayo
rivers.
Information from: “Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios” . Ministerio de Cultura
- More on Orthography
In 2013, the Ministry of Education established an official alphabet (Resolución Directoral No 0107-2013-ED).
- PLACES
- Peru
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Spoken in the basins of the Putumayo, Napo, and Amazonas, in the department of Loreto, in Peru.