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Iñapari

 
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Iñapari
Spoken in Peru
Total speakers 4 (1999 SIL)
Language family American
  • Arawakan
    • Maipuran
      • Southern Maipuran
        • Purus
          • Iñapari
Official status
Official language in Perú
Regulated by none
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2 inp
ISO 639-3 inp

Iñapari or Inamari is a critically endangered indigenous American language spoken by just four people in Perú along the Piedras river near the mouth of the Sabaluyo river. The language is already extinct in neighboring Bolivia. All four remaining speakers are bilingual in Spanish and none have any children, which will likely lead to its extinction once the speakers die. The Iñapari language currently has a published dictionary.[1][2]

Notes

  1. ^ Datos de la lengua iñapari. Parker, Stephen G., compiler. 1995. Documento de Trabajo, 27. Yarinacocha: Ministerio de Educación and Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 208 p.
  2. ^ A sketch of Iñapari phonology Parker, Steve. 1999. International Journal of American Linguistics 65: 1-39.

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