Urarina language

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Urarina
Native to Peru
Region Loreto Region, Urarinas district.
Ethnicity Urarina people
Native speakers
3,000 (2002)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ura
Glottolog urar1246[2]
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Urarina is a language spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are around 3,000 speakers.[1] It uses a Latin script. It is also known as Itucali, Simacu or Shimacu.[1]

It has a canonical word order of object–verb–subject which is very rare among the world's languages.[3][4]

References

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  • Wise, Mary Ruth. (1999). "Small Language Families and Isolates in Peru" in The Amazonian Languages. Dixon, R. M. W. and Aikhenvald, Alexandra (ed.)
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Urarina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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