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Classification: Chicham family (Jivaroan)
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Achual, Achuar-Shiwiar, Achuale, Achuara, Jívaro, Maina |
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Chicham family (Jivaroan) |
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acu |
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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
Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
4,904
2,943 speakers in Ecuador, 2500 in Peru.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
There are 3,000 speakers in Peru.
(Unchanged 2016.)
Northwest Loreto region on the Ecuador border, between Morona and Tigre rivers.
Information from: “South America” (103-196) . Mily Crevels (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
~35,000
Although the Shuar are the second largest and one of the most studied Amazonian groups, their language has barely been studied.
Southeast, between the Pastaza and Maranon rivers, east of the present city of Cuenca along the contested border region with Peru, a rocky region covering approximately 25,000 square miles along the lower eastern slopes of the Andes.
Information from: “Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios” . Ministerio de Cultura
Spanish
Quechua
At least half of the population is bilingual in either Spanish or Quechua; and a smaller percentage speaks all three languages.
There has been an alphabet proposed by missionaries. Currently, the Ministry of Education of Peru is in the process of standardizing the alphabet, working with the participation of representatives of the Achuar people.
Spoken by the Chuar and Jíbaro people, living in the basins of the Tigre, Corrientes, Pastaza, Huasaga, Manchari, Huitoyacu, and Situche rivers and the Masacuri and Anazo streams, in Loreto and Datem del Marañón Provinces, Loreto Region, Peru; also spoken in Ecuador.