Harakmbut languages

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Harakmbut (also: Harakmbet ; Hate) is the name of an indigenous South American language family that consists of only two individual languages:

  • Amarakaeri (approx. 500 speakers, status from 1987; language code according to ISO 639-3: [amr])
  • Huachipaeri (approx. 310 speakers, status from 2000; language code: [hug])

Both languages ​​are spoken in southeastern Peru in the Madre de Dios and Cusco regions . Huachipaeri is divided into several dialects .

These are accusative languages with the basic word order subject-object-verb (SOV).

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  • Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1993, ISBN 3-476-00937-8 , p. 616.
  • M. Paul Lewis: Ethnologue. Languages ​​of the World. 16th edition. SIL International, Dallas TX 2009, ISBN 978-1-55671-216-6 , Languages ​​of Peru (Map, Languages ​​No. 5 and 33).
  • Harákmbut. In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages ​​of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.
  • Mary Ruth Wise: Small language families and isolates in Peru. In: Robert MW Dixon , Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 307-340.

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