Loreto Region, Urarinas District along the Chambira River[2]
Ethnicity
Urarina people
Native speakers
3,000 (2002)[3]
Language family
Language isolate Macro-Jibaro ?
Urarina
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ura
Glottolog
urar1246
ELP
Urarina
Urarina is an language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people.[4] There are around 3,000 speakers in Urarinas District (along the Chambira River).[3] It uses a Latin script. It is also known as Itucali, Simacu or Shimacu.[3]
It has a canonical word order of object–verb–subject.[5][6]
^W. Adelaar, 2004, p. 457.
^Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
^ abcUrarina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"Urarina Indian Language". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
^"WALS Online - Language Urarina". Retrieved 11 January 2017.
^"WALS Online - Chapter Order of Subject, Object and Verb". Retrieved 11 January 2017.
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