Caquinte language explained

Caquinte
Nativename:Poyenisati
States:Peru
Speakers:500
Date:2012
Ref:[1]
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Arawakan
Fam2:Southern
Fam3:Campa
Fam4:Ashaninka
Iso3:cot
Glotto:caqu1242
Glottorefname:Caquinte

Caquinte (Caquinte Campa), also Poyenisati, is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is spoken along the Poyeni, Mayapo, Picha, Yori, and Agueni rivers, with some speakers along parts of the Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, within Junín, Peru.[2] It is an endangered language.[1]

Caquinte people are a division of the Campa Indians. They mostly live outside the "regional cash economy". They raise manioc as protein staple, being a subsistence agricultural community. There are approximately 1,000 people with "sporadic" outside contact.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Crevels, Mily . Lyle . Campbell . Verónica . Grondona . 2012 . The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide . Walter de Gruyter . 214 . Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking . 978-3-11-025803-5 . 10.1515/9783110258035. 1887/70116 .
  2. Book: Montoya Terrones, Fabián . 2002 . Naciones amazónicas . Editorial San Marcos . Lima, Peru . 51830202.
  3. James Stuart . Olson . 1991 . The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary . Greenwood Publishing Group . 73 . 978-0-313-26387-3 . Caquinte.