Cahuarano language

Cahuarano
Former Zaparoan language distribution, with Cahuarano pointed at
Native to	Peru
Extinct	c. 1990[1]
Language family	Zaparoan Iquito–Cahuarano Cahuarano
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cah
Glottolog	cahu1268
ELP	Cahuarano

Cahuarano is an extinct indigenous American language of the Zaparoan family, once spoken along the Nanay River in Peru. The last speaker died in the late 1980s or early 1990s. While considered a language by most scholars, it was considered by some to be a dialect of Iquito.^[2]

Its speakers, who were of the Moracano tribe, lived north of the Nanay River northwest of Iquitos. In 1930, Günther Tessmann [de; es] estimated the language's number of speakers to be around 1,000,^[3] while linguist Gustavo Solís gave the number 5 in 1987.^[4]

References

1. Cahuarano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Mary Wise (2005). "Apuntes sobre las lenguas Záparos- familia que se extingue". Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Etnolingüísticos (55): 55–69.
3. Gunter Tessman. "Die Indianer Nordost-Perus: grundlegende Forschungen für eine systematische Kulturkunde". Veröffentlichung der Harvey-Bassler-Stiftung (2): 856.
4. Gustavo Fonseca Solís. "Perú: multilingüismo y extinción de lenguas". América Indígena. 1987.

External links

• http://www.native-languages.org/cahuarano.html -Cahuarano Resources at nativelanguages.org