Asháninka (language)

Ashániunka
Spoken in	Peru
speaker	several tens of thousands
Linguistic ; classification	Arawak languages Maipurish South Maipurish Pre-Andean group Asháninka (language) ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cni

Asháninka is the language of the ethnic group of the same name in Peru . It belongs to the Arawak languages .

distribution

Blackboard with the alphabet in Ashaninca, in a school in Peru, Comunidades Nativas Asháninka "Nuevos Unidos Tahuantinsuyo", ( Distr. Puerto Inca )

In Peru, 0.3% of the population have Asháninka as their mother tongue. This puts the language in fourth place in this country, after Spanish , Quechua and Aymara . The language is most strongly represented in the departamentos Ucayali (4.3%), Junín (4.0%) and Pasco (3.3%). The total number of native speakers aged 3 and over is 73,567.

Web links

Asháninka at ethnologue.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ 2017 census. Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar. Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica, accessed September 15, 2018 (Spanish).

[census2017sprache-1] 2017 census. Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar. Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica, accessed September 15, 2018 (Spanish).