Amuesha

E628574

Amuesha is another name for the Yaneshaʼ language, an Arawakan language spoken by the Yaneshaʼ (Amuesha) people of central Peru.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Amuesha canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Amuesha language ⓘ
Yanesha language ⓘ
linked to: Yaneshaʼ language

Yaneshaʼ ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Asháninka ⓘ
Ashéninka ⓘ
linked to: Asháninka

other Southern Arawakan languages ⓘ
country Peru ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicity Yaneshaʼ ⓘ
glottologName Yaneshaʼ ⓘ
hasDialects eastern Yaneshaʼ ⓘ
linked to: Yaneshaʼ

northwestern Yaneshaʼ ⓘ
southwestern Yaneshaʼ ⓘ
hasGlottocode yane1238 ⓘ
hasLinguisticArea Amazonian foothills of the Andes ⓘ
hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn Peru ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ
hasSpeakerPopulationEstimate several thousand speakers ⓘ
ISO639-3Code ame ⓘ
isPartOf Peruvian Amazon linguistic area ⓘ
languageFamily Arawakan ⓘ
linked to: Arawakan languages

Maipurean ⓘ
region Junín Region ⓘ
Pasco Region ⓘ
spokenBy Amuesha people ⓘ
Yaneshaʼ people ⓘ
spokenIn Peru ⓘ
central Peru ⓘ
status threatened ⓘ
subclassOf Maipurean language ⓘ
linked to: Maipurean languages
subjectOf descriptive grammars ⓘ
phonological studies ⓘ
sociolinguistic studies ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
traditional rituals ⓘ
usedIn bilingual education programs in Peru ⓘ
wordOrder SVO ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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