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Endangered languages
List of endangered languages in the world.
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Endangered languages
Machiguenga
Language; Endangered languages
Machiguenga (Matsigenka) is a major Arawakan language of Peru. It is close enough to Nomatsiguenga to sometimes be considered dialects of a single language, especially given that both are spoken by ...
Yine
Language; Endangered languages
Yine (Chontaquiro, Simiranch) is a Maipurean language spoken in Brazil and Peru. Formerly referred to as Piro, it belongs to the Piro group which also includes Inapari(†), Kanamaré(†), and Apurinã. ...
Munichi
Language; Endangered languages
Munichi is a recently extinct language which was spoken in the village of Munichis, about 10 miles or 16 km West of Yurimaguas, Loreto Region, Peru. The last known mother-tongue speaker, Victoria ...
Shipibo
Language; Endangered languages
Shipibo (also Shipibo-Conibo, Shipibo-Konibo) is a Panoan language spoken in Peru and Brazil by approximately 26,000 speakers. Shipibo is an official language of Peru. Within the Panoan family, ...
Taushiro
Language; Endangered languages
Also known as Pinche or Pinchi, is a nearly extinct possible language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon near Ecuador. In 2000 SIL counted one speaker in an ethnic population of 20. Documentation was ...
Ticuna
Language; Endangered languages
Ticuna is a language spoken by approximately 40,000 people in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. It is the native language of the Tïcuna people. Tïcuna is generally classified as a language isolate, but may ...
Urarina
Language; Endangered languages
Urarina is a language spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are only around 3000 speakers alive today according to the 2002 Ethnologue. It ...
