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    The Chicham languages, also known as Jivaroan (Hívaro, Jívaro, Jibaro) is a small language family of northern Peru and eastern Ecuador. Chicham consists...
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    The Jivaroan peoples are the indigenous peoples in the headwaters of the Marañon River and its tributaries, in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador. The tribes...
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  • known as (Macro-)Andean, is a language proposal of Morris Swadesh and other historical linguists. The two families, Jivaroan and Cahuapanan are most frequently...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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  • Jivaro (redirect from Jivaroan)
    genre Jivaroan peoples, indigenous peoples in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador Jívaro people or Shuar, one of the Jivaroan peoples Jivaro languages, a language...
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    replaced in historical times by Aguaruna, a Jivaroan language from the Amazon which is still spoken there. The languages further upriver are difficult to identify...
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  • language, as it stands today, is considered part of the Chicham (or Jivaroan) language family. The geographical remoteness within the Ecuadorian rainforest...
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    Peru has many languages in use, with its official languages being Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. Spanish has been in the country since it began being taught...
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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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  • languages also have lexical similarities with Zaparoan, Jivaroan, and Arawakan. These six languages and families in the table at right have not been linked...
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  • the Jivaroan language family. It has official standing in the area it is spoken. Huambisa belongs to the Jivaroan linguistic family, a small language family...
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    confluence) Pre-Proto-Puinave-Nadahup (Lower Madeira River) Pre-Proto-Jivaroan (Rio Negro confluence) Pre-Proto-Yanomami (along the Lower Rio Negro) Pre-Proto-Arawan...
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  • Based on this, Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño (1936) classified it as a Jivaroan language. Kaufman (1994) states that there is "little resemblance", but Adelaar...
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    Achuar (category Jivaroan peoples)
    speak a Shuar language and Achuar-Shiwiar language, dialects of the Jivaroan languages. Achuar Chicham or Achuar are related to other languages such as Shuar...
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  • and Kichwa along with their native language, Shiwiar. Shuar belongs to the same language family as Shiwiar – Jivaroan. Although the Achuar live in the Amazon...
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    Candoshi-Shapra as a Macro-Arawakan language. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Hibito-Cholon, Jivaroan, Cahuapanan, Quechua, Kunza...
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    tsentsak is derived from the Shuar language, which belongs to the Jivaroan language family. The Shuar are members of the Jivaroan peoples who reside in the Amazon...
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  • they are separate languages. Attempts have been made to link Maynas with the Jivaroan, Cahuapanan, Zaparoan, and Candoshi languages, but they have not...
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    Oto-Manguean Purépecha Macro-Chibchan Chibchan Paezan Andean–Equatorial Andean Jivaroan Macro-Tucanoan Equatorial (with Macro-Arawakan and Tupian) Ge–Pano–Carib...
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    Amazonian languages is the term used to refer to the indigenous languages of "Greater Amazonia." This area is significantly larger than the Amazon and...
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    Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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    Aguaruna people (category Jivaroan peoples)
    collaboration of Pieter C. Muysken. (2004) The languages of the Andes (especially section 4.4 The Jivaroan languages) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press....
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    F.H. with Pieter C. Muysken. (2004) The languages of the Andes (especially section 4.4 The Jivaroan languages). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
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  • Tsunki (category Jivaroan peoples)
    Achuar and Shuar people of Amazonia. The term is derived from the Jivaroan language family. It translates to English as "the first shaman" and is frequently...
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  • actually distinct languages, only an ethnic or regional name. Campbell & Grondona (2012:116–130) lists the following 395 languages of South America as...
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    Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. "Bora". Archived from the original on 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2015-06-11. "Jivaroan and Witotoan...
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  • Languages used on the Internet List of fictional languages List of programming languages Lists of languages Sign language and List of sign languages Summary...
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  • Huambisa (category Jivaroan peoples)
    indigenous people of Peru and Ecuador. One of the Jivaroan peoples, they speak the Huambisa language and live on the upper Marañón and Santiago rivers...
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  • "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World...
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    Shuar (category Jivaroan peoples)
    their tradition of head shrinking, known as Tzantsa. The Shuar language belongs to the Jivaroan linguistic family and is spoken by over 50,000 people in the...
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