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ALSO KNOWN AS		Inapori, Inapari, Inamarí, Iapari, Inamarí
CLASSIFICATION		Arawakan, Southern Arawakan, Southwestern branch, Southern Outlier
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		inp; inap1243
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Inapari Cuniba Cuchitineri
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		"In 2012 I talked to a UC Berkeley anthropology student who had interacted with the single remaining family of speakers earlier that same year, and she put the number [of speakers] at 3" (Lev Michael, personal communication).

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Information from: “Iñapari (Peru) - Language Snapshot” . Chris Rogers (2020) , Peter K. Austin · ELPublishing

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5 (4 siblings & their 1 uncle)
Native speakers worldwide
OLDER ADULTS
4
ELDERS
1

DATE OF INFO: 2020

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

The four siblings speak the language with each other, but not otherwise. It is no longer connected to any cultural behaviors or social practices.

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

They value their language as a representation of their past but not their future, having no expectation of revitalization. They take pride in recognition from the Peruvian government and the recently developed orthography, but don't use it themselves and are illiterate in Iñapari.

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Formal recognition by the Peruvian government

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Spanish

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Extreme language shift of Iñapari and other regional Indigenous languages towards Spanish.

More on Orthography

Developed by the General Directorate of Intercultural Bilingual and Rural Education (DIGEIBIR)

PLACES: Village of Sabaluyoc along the Las Piedras River in the department of Madre de Dios in Peru

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(2016 unchanged.)

DATE OF INFO: 1999

PLACES: Peru;

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Madre de Dios Region, Piedras River, mouth of Sabaluyo, near Puerto Maldonado.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
600
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
45

DATE OF INFO: 1998 (SIL)

PLACES: Peru

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Department of Madre de Dios, on the Piedras River, near to Puerto Maldonado.

Scripts (Writing system): none

PLACES: Peru

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the department of Madre de Dios, Peru.

ISSN: 1740-6234	Language Snapshots	December		2020	Iñapari (Peru) - Language Snapshot			Peter K. Austin	ELPublishing	Language Documentation and Description		http://www.elpublishing.org/docs/1/19/ldd19_02.pdf	Chris Rogers	Rogers, Chris. 2020. Iñapari (Peru) - Language Snapshot. Language Documentation and Description 19, 9-16. http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/204		4		5 (4 siblings & their 1 uncle)	2020	1-9		1	Spanish	Formal recognition by the Peruvian government	They value their language as a representation of their past but not their future, having no expectation of revitalization. They take pride in recognition from the Peruvian government and the recently developed orthography, but don't use it themselves and are illiterate in Iñapari.	Extreme language shift of Iñapari and other regional Indigenous languages towards Spanish.	Critically Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	The four siblings speak the language with each other, but not otherwise. It is no longer connected to any cultural behaviors or social practices.	15	15		Village of Sabaluyoc along the Las Piedras River in the department of Madre de Dios in Peru		-12.319931, -69.272822
					Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios						Lima, Peru	http://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/	Ministerio de Cultura																				Peru	Spoken in the department of Madre de Dios, Peru.
			16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International		Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub			4	1999	1-9	(2016 unchanged.)						Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Madre de Dios Region, Piedras River, mouth of Sabaluyo, near Puerto Maldonado.	Peru;
			3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing		Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub			600		100-999							Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)								-12.0822,-69.7412
				2007	South America	Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages	103-196	C. Moseley	London & New York: Routledge				Mily Crevels	Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD		45	4	1998 (SIL)	1-9							Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)						Peru	Department of Madre de Dios, on the Piedras River, near to Puerto Maldonado.
					World Oral Literature Project							http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.				4		1-9							Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Iñapari

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

5 (4 siblings & their 1 uncle)

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

600

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Discussion

Iñapari

Language metadata

Language information by source

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

5 (4 siblings & their 1 uncle)

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

600

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Discussion

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