Shiwiar language

Achuar
Shiwiar
Native toPeru, Ecuador
EthnicityAchuar people, Shiwiar
Native speakers
4,420 in Peru (2012)[1]
3,520 in Ecuador (2007)[1]
Chicham
  • Achuar
Language codes
ISO 639-3acu
Glottologachu1248
ELPAchuar

Shiwiar, also known as Achuar, Jivaro and Maina, is a Chicham language spoken along the Pastaza and Bobonaza rivers in Ecuador. Shiwiar is one of the thirteen indigenous languages of Ecuador.[2] All of these indigenous languages are endangered.[2]

  1. ^ a b Achuar at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Moseley, C., ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104095-5. OCLC 610522460.