Axininca language

Axininca
Native to Peru
Native speakers
4,000 (2000)[1]
Arawakan
  • Southern

    • Campa (Pre-Andine)
      • Axininca
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cpc
Glottolog ajyi1238[2]

Axininca (also Axininca Campa,[3] Ajyíninka Apurucayali, Campa, Ashaninca, Ashéninca Apurucayali, Apurucayali Campa, Ajyéninka) is an Arawakan language spoken along the Apurucayali tributary of the Pachitea River in Peru.

It has figured quite prominently in linguistic theory involving phonology (especially prosody including its stress) and morphology.

Demographics and language policy

There is 20% literacy in Ajyíninka Apurucayali and 30% literacy in Spanish, there is much bilingualism.

It is an official language.

Genealogical relations

The language is not mutually comprehensible with related Ashéninka Campa varieties.

Sounds

Consonants

Bilabial Apical Postalveolar
/Palatal
Velar Placeless
Plosives aspirated
unaspirated p t k ʔ
Affricates aspirated tsʰ tʃʰ
unaspirated ts
Fricatives s ç h
Nasals m n ɲ N
Liquids ɲ
Glides β j p

Notes

  1. Axininca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ajyininka Apurucayali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. The name Campa is offensive.

Bibliography


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