Campa languages explained

Campa
Also Known As:	Pre-Andine
Region:	Western Amazon
Familycolor:	American
Fam2:	Southern
Child1:	Asháninka
Child2:	Ashéninka
Child3:	Kakinte
Child4:	Matsigenka
Child5:	Nomatsigenga
Glotto:	prea1240
Glottorefname:	Pre-Andine Maipuran
Child6:	Ashe-Asha Norte
Child7:	Nanti

The Campa (Kampa) or Campan (Kampan) languages, a.k.a. Pre-Andine Maipurean / Arawakan, are closely related Arawakan languages of the Peruvian Amazon.

Languages

The Glottolog uses the term Pre-Andine for this group of languages and classifies them as follows, based on classifications by Michael (2011)^[1] and Pedrós:^[2]

• Pre-Andine
  • Nomatsigenga
  • Asha-Ashe-Kak-Matsi-Nan
    • Matsi-Nan
      • Matsigenka
      • Nanti
    • Asha-Ashe-Kak
      • Caquinte
      • Ashe-Asha
        • Asháninka
        • Ashéninka
          • Ashéninka Pajonal
          • South Ucayali Ashéninka
        • Ashe-Asha Norte
          • Ashéninka Perené
          • Pichis Ashéninka
          • Aiyíninka Apurucayali
          • Ucayali-Yurúa Ashéninka

There are grammars for Ucayali-Pajonal,^[3] Ashéninka Perené,^[4] Nanti,^[5] Aiyíninka Apurucayali,^[6] and Caquinte.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Michael, Lev. 2011. La reconstrucción y clasificación interna de la rama Kampa de la familia Arawak. Paper presented at the CILLA V (Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America), 6 October 2011
2. Pedrós. Toni. 2018. Ashéninka y asháninka: ¿de cuántas lenguas hablamos?. Cadernos de Etnolingüística. 6. 1. 1–30.
3. Book: Pedrós, Toni . A grammar of Ashéninka (Ucayali-Pajonal) . LOT . 2023 . 978-94-6093-425-4 . Amsterdam . en.
4. Book: Mihas. Elena. A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak). 2015. Mouton. Berlin.
5. Book: Michael. Lev David. Nanti evidential practice: Language, knowledge, and social action in an Amazonian society. 2008. University of Texas at Austin. Ann Arbor.
6. Book: Payne. David L.. The Phonology and Morphology of Axininca Campa. 1981. The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. Dallas.
7. Book: Swift. Kenneth. Morphology of Caquinte (Preandine Arawakan). 1985. University of Texas at Arlington (MA thesis).