Amarakaeri
| Amarakaeri | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Peru | |
| speaker | 1,910 (2007) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
amr |
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| ISO 639-3 |
amr |
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Amarakaeri is an indigenous language of the Harakmbet language family, which is spoken in Peru along the Madre de Dios and Colorado .
The language once had tens of thousands of speakers. Numerous speakers of the language were killed during the Spanish conquest . Even after the end of the Spanish colonial era , the Amarakeri was largely displaced by assimilation measures and the sole introduction of the Spanish language as the official and teaching language, so that the number fell to 500 by 1987. Between 5% and 15% of Amarakaeri can read and write in Spanish , but practically no one writes in Amarakaeri. Amarakaeri speakers include the Kochimberi , Küpondirideri , Wíntaperi , Wakitaneri , and Kareneri gold tribes. There is a common misconstrued thesis that Amarakeri is an Arawakan language. Alternative names are Amarakaire, Amaracaire, and Mashco; but the last is considered pejorative.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Entry for Amarakaeri in the Rosetta project ( Memento from November 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )