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Amahuaca

A language of Peru

ISO 639-3: amc

Population	110 in Peru (2000 SIL), decreasing. 20 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 330. Ethnic population: 500 (300 in Peru and 200 in Brazil). Perhaps 50 in the border areas have not been contacted.
Region	Southeast Amazon Basin, scattered in Ucayali and Madre de Dios states on the following rivers: Sepahua, Curiuja, Curanja, Upper Ucayali, Inuya, Mapuya, Purus, Aguaytía, Yuruá, Las Piedras. Also in Brazil.
Language map	Peru, reference number 4
Alternate names	Amaguaco, Amawaka, Ameuhaque, Ipitineri, Sayaco
Dialects	Most similar to Kashinawa [cbs] and Shipibo-Conibo [shp].
Classification	Panoan, South-Central, Amahuaca
Language use	Official language. The group is disintegrating and losing its identity due to intermarriage with others. Home, village. Mainly older adults. Negative language attitude. Also use some Spanish, Yaminahua [yaa], or Sharanahua [mcd].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 30%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 1963–1997.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Hunters; fishermen; swidden agriculturalists; lumber workers; oil company workers; maids in cities, on Piedres River only, harvesting and processing Brazil nuts. Christian, traditional religion.

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Brazil

Language name	Amahuaca
Population	220 in Brazil (1995).
Region	Amazonas.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 157
Alternate names	Amawaca, Amawáka, Amenguaca, Sayacu
Dialects	Inuvaken, Viwivakeu.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Chávez, Margarethe, compiler, and others. 1999. Xunivaun jau yohipahonni = Cuentos de nuestros antepasados.  

Hyde, Sylvia Y. 1973. "El verbo reflexivo del amahuaca."  

Hyde, Sylvia Y., compiler. 1980. Diccionario amahuaca.  

Kensinger, Kenneth M. 1985. "Panoan linguistic, folkloristic and ethnographic research: retrospect and prospect."

Kietzman, Dale W. 1952. "Afinidades culturales de los amahuacas del Perú."

Loos, Eugene E. 1973. "Algunas implicaciones de la reconstrucción de un fragmento de la gramática del proto-pano."  

Loos, Eugene E., editor. 1973. Estudios panos 2.  

Osborn, Henry. 1948. "Amahuaca phonemes."

Russell, Robert L. 1958. "Algunos morfemas de amahuaca (pano) que equivalen a la entonación del castellano."

Russell, Robert L. 1965. A transformational grammar of Amahuaca (Pano).  

Russell, Robert L. 1975. Estudios panos 4. Una gramática transformacional del amahuaca.  

Russell, Robert L. and Delores Russell. 1959. "Amahuaca vocabulary = Vocabulário amawaka."

Russell, Robert L. and Delores Russell. 1959. "Syntactotonemics in Amahuaca (Pano) = Sintatotonêmica no amawaka (pano)."

Sparing-Chávez, Margarethe W. 1997. The functional load of an interclausal reference system: an Amahuaca example.

Sparing-Chavez, Margarethe W. 1998. "Interclausal reference in Amahuaca."

Sparing-Chávez, Margarethe W. 2005. "La referencia entre cláusulas en el amahuaca."

Sparing-Chávez, Margarethe. 2003. "I want to but I can’t: the frustrative in Amahuaca."  

Vernacular Publications

Caahax jahax hizinyamati. 1992.  

Cuuzha jahara ja mai tohastipan jahax jonivo qui. Ja sharaahi jahaxra cani qui nu. 1973.  

Ja mai tohaztipan jahaa yohinna. 1992.  

Jau yohiquin Esopon cunuuni. 1992.  

Mariquita. 1986.  

Mucaxanhquin yovanti quirica. 1995.  

Nan jahaahaxmun janox nonhcanu. 1993.  

Quiricá 1. 1960.  

Quiricá 2. 1961.  

Quiricá 3. 1962.  

Quirica 3. 1985.  

Quiricá 4. 1964.  

Quirica 4. 1984.  

Quiricá 5. 1968.  

Quirica 5. 1986.  

Quirica 6. 1988.  

Quirica yovanqui (Vamos a leer: Libro de aprestamiento para la lectura y escritura no. 2). 1982.  

Quiricá yovantí 2. 1968.  

Xunivaun jau yohipahonni jovi. 1995.