Endangered Languages Project - Awa Pit

Awa Pit

^{[aka Coaiquer, Cuaiquer, Quaiquer]}

Classification: Barbacoan

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Coaiquer, Cuaiquer, Quaiquer, Kwaiker, Awa, Awapit, (Awa-)Coaiquer, Awa-Quaiquer, Coaiker, Cuqiquer, Koaiker
CLASSIFICATION		Barbacoan, Northern Barbacoan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		kwi
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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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

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<17,464
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
18647
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Less than 15,364 (ethnic population size) speak it in Colombia (2001) and there are 2100 speakers who speak it among an ethnic population of 3283 people in Ecuador.

DATE OF INFO: Colombia (2001)

PLACES: Colombia and Ecuador

Ethnic population
15,140
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are 1000 speakers in Ecuador out of an ethnic group of 2,200 and more in Colombia.

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: In Ecuador, the Awa Pit people very much want to acculturate, both linguistically and culturally.

PLACES: Colombia and Ecuador

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
13,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
13,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
12,000 in Colombia (Civallero 2008), decreasing. Population total all countries: 13,000. 0 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 13,000 (Crevels 2007).
Majority are monolingual in Spanish [spa] and no evidence of monolingualism in Awa Cuaiquer [Awa Pit].

DATE OF INFO: 2008

PLACES: Colombia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Pacific slopes of Andes, Narino Department, from Ecuador border north, near Barbacoas; Cumbal, Mallama, Ricaurte, Cuambíyaslambi, and Cuaiquer del Alto Albí reservations.

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
15,130
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
12,000 in Colombia (Civallero 2008), decreasing. No monolinguals. Ethnic population: 13,000 (Crevels 2007).
3,130 in Ecuador (2012 UNSD)

DATE OF INFO: 2008 (Colombia), 2012 (Ecuador)

SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Negative in Ecuador
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Colombia, Ecuador

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: In Colombia: Nariño department: Barbacoas area; Cuaiquer del Alto Albí, Cuambíyaslambi, Cumbal, Mallama, and Ricaurte reservations; Pacific slopes of Andes.
In Ecuador: Carchi and Esmeraldas provinces: extreme north, Andes west slopes, Colombia-Ecuador border, Mira River area.

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press