Cahuapanan

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Cahuapanan is a small family of indigenous languages spoken in the Peruvian Amazon, known for their uncertain genetic classification and proposed links to other South American language families.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Cahuapanan canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf South American language family ⓘ
indigenous language family ⓘ
language family ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Peru ⓘ
documentationStatus poorly documented ⓘ
geneticClassificationStatus uncertain ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Cahuapana ⓘ
Cahuapanan family ⓘ
hasFeature SOV word order (reported for member languages) ⓘ
complex verbal morphology (proposed) ⓘ
rich suffixal morphology (proposed) ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage Chayahuita ⓘ
Jebero ⓘ
hasProposedRelationshipWith Jivaroan languages ⓘ
Macro-Andean hypothesis ⓘ
Macro-Panoan hypotheses ⓘ
Macro-Tucanoan hypothesis ⓘ
Mayan languages ⓘ
other Amazonian language families ⓘ
hasSubgroup Chayahuita language ⓘ
Jebero language ⓘ
isA small language family ⓘ
isSubjectOf comparative-historical studies in South American linguistics ⓘ
languageEndangermentStatus endangered ⓘ
linguisticTypology Amazonian language family ⓘ
region Peruvian Amazon ⓘ
spokenBy Cahuapanan peoples ⓘ
spokenIn Loreto Region ⓘ
statusInLinguistics genetic isolate at family level (no widely accepted external relatives) ⓘ
usedIn traditional cultural practices of Cahuapanan peoples ⓘ
writingSystem primarily oral tradition ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jivaroan → hasProposedRelation → Cahuapanan ⓘ
Jebero → languageFamily → Cahuapanan ⓘ
Jebero language → languageBranch → Cahuapanan ⓘ
Chayahuita → languageFamily → Cahuapanan ⓘ
Cahuapana → languageFamily → Cahuapanan ⓘ