Nanti language

Pucapucari
Cogapacori
Nanti
Native to Perú
Native speakers
250 (2007)[1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cox
Glottolog nant1250[2]

Pucapucari, or Nanti,[3] is an Arawakan language spoken by approximately 250 people in southeastern Peruvian Amazonia, principally in a number of small communities located near the headwaters of the Camisea and Timpía Rivers. It belongs to the Kampan branch of the Arawak family, and is most closely related to Matsigenka, with which it is partially mutually intelligible.,[4][5]

The language is also sometimes called Kogapakori (variants: Cogapacori, Kugapakori), a pejorative term of Matsigenka origin meaning 'violent person'.[6]

References

  1. Pucapucari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nanti". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Love Eriksen, 2011, Nature and Culture in Prehistoric Amazonia
  4. Michael, Lev. 2008. Nanti evidential practice: Language, Knowledge, and Social Action in an Amazonian society. PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-95C3-C
  5. Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
  6. Michael, Lev and Christine Beier. 2007. Una breve historia del pueblo Nanti hasta el año 2004. Online version: http://www.cabeceras.org/cabeceras_nanti_histor_2004.pdf

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