Urarina language
| Urarina | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Loreto Region, Urarinas district. |
| Ethnicity | Urarina people |
| Native speakers | around 3000 (date missing) |
| Language family | |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ura |
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Urarina is a language spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are only around 3000 speakers alive today according to the 2002 Ethnologue.[1] It uses a Latin script. It is also known as Itucali, Simacu or Shimacu.[2]
It has a canonical word order of object–verb–subject which is very rare among the world's languages.[3][4]
References
- Wise, Mary Ruth. (1999). "Small Language Families and Isolates in Peru" in The Amazonian Languages. Dixon, R. M. W. and Aikhenvald, Alexandra (ed.)
