Ashéninka language

Not to be confused with Asháninka language.
Ashéninka
Campa
Native to Peru
Ethnicity Ashéninka people
Native speakers
50,000 (2001–2002)[1]
Arawakan
  • Southern

Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
prq â€“ Perené
cpu â€“ Pichis
cpc â€“ Apurucayali
cpb â€“ Ucayali-Yurúa
cjo â€“ Pajonal
cpy â€“ South Ucayali (spurious)
Glottolog ashe1271  (Asheninka)[2]

Ashéninka (Ashéninca, Ashéninga) is an indigenous American language of the Arawakan family spoken in Peru. According to the indigenous peoples database of the Peruvian Ministry of Education,[3] the Ashéninka people are 9,005 individuals. The Ethnologue gives much higher figures for the different Ashéninka varieties.

The Glottolog distinguishes five different Ashéninka languages (Perené, Pichis, Apurucayali, Pajonal and Ucayali-Yurúa). This classification was established by David Payne in his Apurucayali Axininca grammar,[4] but he referred to these different varieties as dialects and not as different languages.[4]:3–5 Therefore, the present state of research does not allow to know until which extent the different Ashéninka varieties are mutually intelligible among them and with Asháninka.[5][6][7] However, Heitzman[5] says that the Pajonal and Ucayali varieties are mutually intelligible and Payne[6]:14 says that Asháninka speakers can communicate with Ashéninka Perené speakers, but not with Ashéninka Apurucayali speakers.

Ashéninka is a locally official language in Peru, as are all native Peruvian languages. It and its relatives are also known by the largely pejorative term Campa.

References

  1. ↑ Perené at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pichis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Apurucayali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ucayali-Yurúa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pajonal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    South Ucayali (spurious) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Asheninka". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ "Base de datos de pueblos indígenas u originarios – Ashéninka". Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 Payne, David L. (1981). The Phonology and Morphology of Axininca Campa. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  5. 1 2 Heitzman, Allene. 1973. Reflexes of some proto-Campa consonants in modern Campan languages and dialects. University of Kansas. MA thesis. p. 1
  6. 1 2 Payne, Judith K. (1989). Lecciones para el aprendizaje del idioma ashéninca (in Spanish). Yarinacocha: Ministerio de Educación & Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. p. 14.
  7. ↑ Mihas, Elena (2015). A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak). Berlin: Mouton.


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