Native speakers 3,000 (2002) | Ethnicity Urarina people | |
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Region Loreto Region, Urarinas district. Language family |
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. It uses a Latin script. It is also known as Itucali, Simacu or Shimacu.
It has a canonical word order of object–verb–subject which is very rare among the world's languages.
References
Urarina language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA