Nomatsiguenga language

Nomatsiguenga
inato
Native toPerú
EthnicityMachiguenga
Native speakers
6,500 (2003)[1]
Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Campa
      • Matsigenka
        • Nomatsiguenga
Language codes
ISO 639-3not
Glottolognoma1263
ELPNomatsiguenga

Nomatsiguenga (Matsigenka) is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is close enough to Machiguenga to sometimes be considered dialects of a single language, especially given that both are spoken by the Machiguenga people. Most speakers are monolingual.

  1. ^ Nomatsiguenga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)