Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Endangered languages

Yanesha'

Language; Endangered languages

Also called Amuesha or Amoesha is a language spoken by the Amuesha people of Peru in central and eastern Pasco Region. Due to the influence and domination of the Inca Empire, Yanesha' has many ...

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 ...

Yagua

Language; Endangered languages

The Yagua language is spoken by the Yagua people, primarily in northeastern Peru. As of 2005, it appears that a few speakers may have migrated northward across the Peruvian-Colombian border near the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Burduna

Language; Endangered languages

Burduna, also known as Boordoona, Budina, Budoona, Buduna, Pinneegooroo, Poodena, Poordoona, Purduma, and Purduna is an aboriginal language of Australia. It is spoken in Henry and upper Lyndon rivers ...

Bardi

Language; Endangered languages

Bardi (also Baardi, Baard) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language. There are approximately 20 speakers out of an ethnic population of 380. Bardi is a member of the Nyulnyulan language family. ...