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Mashco Piro language

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Native to
  
Peru

Native speakers
  
(20–100 cited 1976)

Glottolog
  
mash1270

Ethnicity
  
Mashco Piro

ISO 639-3
  
cuj

Language family
  
Arawakan Southern Piro Mashco Piro

Mashco Puro is a Maipurean language spoken in Peru. It is also called Cujareño. It is very similar to the Piro, with an estimated 60% inherent intelligibility. Kaufman considered it a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may rather be a dialect of otherwise extinct Iñapari.

Language documentation is limited, since the Mascho Piro are highly nomadic hunter-gatherers who actively avoid contact with outsiders. The name Cujareño has been associated with the Panoan languages, though without much evidence.

References

Mashco Piro language Wikipedia