Kashibo language

Cashibo
Cacataibo
Native to Perú
Ethnicity Cashibo people
Native speakers
1,200 (2007)[1]
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan

    • Cashibo
Dialects
Cashibo
Cacataibo
Rubo / Isunbo
Nocaman
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
cbr  Kashibo
nom  Nocaman
Glottolog cash1251[2]

Cashibo (Caxibo, Cacibo, Cachibo, Cahivo), Cacataibo, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Managua, or Hagueti is an indigenous language of Peru in the region of the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers. It belongs to the Panoan language family.

Dialects are Kashibo (Kaschinõ), Rubo/Isunbo, Kakataibo, and Nokaman, which until recently had been thought to be extinct.

Statistics

The language is official along the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers in Perú where it is most widely spoken. It is used in schools until third grade. There are not many monolinguals, although some women over the age of fifty are.

There is five to ten percent literacy compared to fifteen to twenty-five percent literacy in Spanish as a second language. A Cashibo-Cacataibo dictionary has been compiled, and there is a body of literature, especially poetry.

References

  1. Kashibo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nocaman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cashibo-Cacataibo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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