Endangered Languages Project - Mashco Piro

Mashco Piro

^{[aka Mashco, Mashco Piro,]}

Classification: Arawakan

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mashco, Mashco Piro
CLASSIFICATION		Arawakan, Southern Arawakan, Southern Outlier
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cuj
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Crevels (2012) lists Mashco (Mashco-Piro) as an unclassified language spoken by an uncontacted group who reportedly speak a language related to Piro (Arawakan). Aikhevald (1999a:68) gives Mashko-Piro as a separate language in her Piro-Apuriná group of South-Western Arawak[an], but indicates it may be a dialect of Iñapari.

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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200-600
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
200-600

PLACES: Peru, Brazil

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
60
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Unchanged 2016.)

DATE OF INFO: 1976 (SIL)

PLACES: Peru;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Madre de Dios Region, Purús province; Upper Purús Region.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Madre de Dios Region, Purús province; Upper Purús Region.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
130?
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
130?
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Isolated group. Reflects those in Brazil only? "The group, known as the Mashco-Piro in Peru, was spotted first by satellite and then confirmed with an overflight. The Mascho-Piro are actually two groups of between 60 and 70 individuals each." (p.13.)

DATE OF INFO: 2013

PLACES: Peru, Brazil

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Peru.
Brazil: Javari Valley; near Santa Rosa, a municipality in Acre.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing