Caquinte (Caquinte Campa), also Poyenisati, is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is spoken along the Poyeni, Mayapo, Picha, Yori, and Agueni rivers, with some speakers along parts of the Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, within Junín, Peru.[2] It is an endangered language.[1]
| Caquinte | |
|---|---|
| Poyenisati | |
| Native to | Peru |
Native speakers | 500 (2012)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cot |
| Glottolog | caqu1242 |
| ELP | Caquinte |
Caquinte people are a division of the Campa Indians. They mostly live outside the "regional cash economy". They raise manioc as protein staple, being a subsistence agricultural community. There are approximately 1,000 people with "sporadic" outside contact.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Crevels, Mily (2012). "Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking". In Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter. p. 214. doi:10.1515/9783110258035. hdl:1887/70116. ISBN 978-3-11-025803-5.
- ^ Montoya Terrones, Fabián (2002). Naciones amazónicas. Lima, Peru: Editorial San Marcos. OCLC 51830202.
- ^ Olson, James Stuart (1991). "Caquinte". The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-313-26387-3.
External links
edit- ELAR collection: An Audiovisual Corpus of Caquinte (Arawak) deposited by Zachary O'Hagan
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