Not to be confused with Shuar language from Ecuador.
Achuar
Shiwiar
Native to
Peru, Ecuador
Ethnicity
Achuar people, Shiwiar
Native speakers
4,420 in Peru (2012)[1] 3,520 in Ecuador (2007)[1]
Language family
Chicham
Achuar
Language codes
ISO 639-3
acu
Glottolog
achu1248
ELP
Achuar
Shiwiar, also known as Achuar, Jivaro and Maina, is a Chicham language spoken along the Pastaza and Bobonaza rivers in Ecuador. Shiwiar is one of the thirteen indigenous languages of Ecuador.[2] All of these indigenous languages are endangered.[2]
^ abAchuar at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ abMoseley, C., ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104095-5. OCLC 610522460.
Shiwiar, also known as Achuar, Jivaro and Maina, is a Chicham language spoken along the Pastaza and Bobonaza rivers in Ecuador. Shiwiar is one of the...
Ethnologue lists 24 languages of Ecuador: Achuar–Shiwiar Awa–Cuaiquer Cha'palaachi Cofán Colorado Ecuadorian Sign Language Emberá languages Media Lengua 9...
of the Americas belonging to the Jivaroan family, alongside the Shuar, Shiwiar, Awajun, and Wampis (Perú). They are settled along the banks of the Pastaza...
eastern Ecuador. Chicham consists of four languages: 1. Shuar 2. Achuar-Shiwiar 3. Awajun 4. Huambisa This language family is spoken in Amazonas, Cajamarca...
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...
(spoken by the Shuar), Achuar Chicham (spoken by the Achuar), Shiwiar (spoken by the Shiwiar), Cha'palaachi (spoken by the Chachi), Tsa'fiki (spoken by the...
an established language spoken in the extreme north of Peru. It is closely related to the Achuar-Shiwiar, Shuar, and Aguaruna languages, all of which belong...
Cofan), Shuar Chicham (spoken by the Shuar), Achuar-Shiwiar (spoken by the Achuar and the Shiwiar), Cha'palaachi (spoken by the Chachi), Tsa'fiki (spoken...
Additionally, the Shiwiar are a group of Achuar speakers living along the Corrientes River, next to Quechua speakers; many Shiwiar also speak this other...
River. Within the Chicham family, there are four languages: Aguaruna, Huambisa, Shuar, and Achuar-Shiwiar. Speakers of Aguaruna claim mutual intelligibility...
inhabitants and speak the Huaorani language, a linguistic isolate that is not known to be related to any other language. Their ancestral lands are located...
modern-day Cuenca, and the Caras and the Quitu in the North. However, the Inca language and social structures came to predominate, particularly in the Sierra....
different histories. There are at least 40,000 Shuar, 5,000 Achuars and 700 Shiwiars in Ecuador. At the end of the 19th century Catholic Jesuits re-established...
high back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
investigated social reasoning in a tribe in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The Shiwiar, who are a hunter-horticulturalist group previously unexposed to the presented...
present in the region — Quichua, Shuar, Achuar, Huaorani, Siona, Secoya, Shiwiar, Záparo and Cofán — are represented politically by the Confederation. CONFENIAE...
Cofan), Shuar Chicham (spoken by the Shuar), Achuar-Shiwiar (spoken by the Achuar and the Shiwiar), Cha'palaachi (spoken by the Chachi), Tsa'fiki (spoken...
males sing for females in small groups. The name "shiwarum" comes from the Shiwiar people who live in some of the same parts of the Amazon Basin as the frog...
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