Awa Pit language

Cuaiquer
Awa Pit
Native toColombia, Ecuador
Ethnicity15,000 Awa-Kwaiker (2007)[1]
Native speakers
13,000 (2008)[1]
Barbacoan
Language codes
ISO 639-3kwi
Glottologawac1239
ELPAwa Pit
Awapit is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]

Awa Pit, otherwise known as Cuaiquer (Coaiquer, Cuayquer, Kwaiker, Kwayquer, etc.), is a Barbacoan language.[3] Awa Pit is classified by UNESCO as a severely endangered language.[2] The Awa pit language has a subject–object–verb structure and has adopted the Latin script.[4] Grammatically, Awa Pit uses a characteristic conjunct/disjunct system of verb suffixes for person-marking.[3][5][6]

  1. ^ a b Cuaiquer at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (3 ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. p. 16-17. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2.
  3. ^ a b Curnow 1997.
  4. ^ Awa–Cuaiquer, per SIL, Ethnologue, 1986 and 1991. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  5. ^ Curnow 2002.
  6. ^ Cysouw, Michael (2003). The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking. Oxford University Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 9780199554263.