Urarina is an language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are around 3,000 speakers...

The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin (Loreto) who inhabit the valleys of the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers....

Advanced Studies, ISBN 0-901282-02-2 Olawsky, Knut J. (2006), A Grammar of Urarina, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 9783110190205 Pavlík, Radoslav...

Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...

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...

Grammar of Urarina (First ed.). De Gruyter. p. 3. ISBN 978-3-11-019020-5. Retrieved 21 January 2021. Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South...

(2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Urarina, Arawak, Zaparo, and Leko language families due to contact. A word list by Tessmann (1930)...

Takana, Puinave-Nadahup, Taruma, Tupi, Urarina, Witoto-Okaina, Yaruro, Zaparo, Saliba-Hodi, and Tikuna-Yuri language families due to contact. However, these...

confluence) Pre-Proto-Urarina (Ucayali and Marañón confluence) Pre-Proto-Cahuapanan (Huallaga and Marañón confluences) Urheimat of other language families:: 821 ...

(15) Tupian (70, including Guaraní) Tuxá (Brazil: Bahia, Pernambuco) † Urarina (also known as Shimacu, Itukale, Shimaku) Vilela Wakona † Warao (Guyana...

Kaufman (2007) posits the following membership. The unclassified languages Urarina, Puelche, Sabela, Taushiro, Omurano are included in the Kawapanan...

object–verb–subject such as Äiwoo, Guarijio, Hixkaryana, Urarina, the constructed language Klingon, and to some extent Tapirapé. Although not dominant...

rainforest. Like other indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, such as the Urarina, plants, especially trees, hold a complex and important interest for the...

An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...

Mesoamerican languages, such as the Mayan languages and Oto-Manguean languages many Nilotic languages (including Nandi and Maasai) Many languages, such as...

(Morris Swadesh and others, with Cahuapanan, Urarina, Puelche, and maybe Huarpe). The unclassified language Candoshi has also been linked to Chicham, as...

known languages, after SOV. Together, SVO and SOV account for more than 87% of the world's languages. The label SVO often includes ergative languages although...

Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...

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similarities with the Kulle, Omurano, Taushiro, Urarina, Arawak, Cholon-Hibito, Jaqi, and Quechua language families due to contact. Apart from some brief...

shamanism are common, as noted among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia. Portuguese and Spanish are the primary languages of the continent. The majority of South...

object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) is a classification of languages, based on whether the structure predominates in pragmatically neutral...

home to many Amazonian indigenous peoples such as the Amhuacas and the Urarina. According to the 2007 Peru Census, the mother tongue of most of the residents...

referencing the Urarina's primordial past. Urarina mythology attests to the centrality of weaving and its role in engendering Urarina society. The post-diluvial...

Urarinas District is one of five districts of the province Loreto in Peru. In addition to Jivaroan-speaking peoples, a major indigenous Amazonian group...

Documentation of Urarina is underway as of 2006, but Puelche and Huarpe are extinct. Kaufman (1994) linked Huarpe instead to the Muran languages and Matanawi...

Examples of indigenous peoples residing in eastern Peru include the Shipibo, Urarina, Cocama, and Aguaruna, to name just a few. European descendants constitute...

acquired no immunity. All of the Peruvian Indigenous groups, such as the Urarina, and even those who live isolated in the most remote areas of the Amazon...

exchanged as objects, Dean’s (1995) research on Amazon bride service among the Urarina demonstrates how differentially situated subjects negotiate the politics...

In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...