| Munichi | |
|---|---|
| Muniche | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Loreto |
| Extinct | late 1990s, with the death of Victoria Huancho Icahuate |
Macro-Arawakan ?
| |
| Dialects | see below |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | myr |
| Glottolog | muni1258 |
| ELP | Munichi |
 Location of Munichi | |
Munichi is an extinct language which was spoken in the village of Munichis, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Yurimaguas, Loreto Region, Peru. In 1988, there were two mother-tongue speakers, but they had not met since the 1970s. The last known fluent speaker, Victoria Huancho Icahuate, died in the late 1990s. As of 2009 there were several semi-speakers who retained significant lexical, and partial grammatical, knowledge of the language (Michael et al. 2013).
It is also called Balsapuertiño, named after the village of Balsapuerto in the department of Loreto, Peru.[1]
Word order in Munichi is VSO.[2][3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Loukotkawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Gibson, Michael Luke. 1996. El Munichi: Un idioma que se extingue. (Serie Lingüística Peruana, 42.) Pucallpa: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 103pp.
- ^ Michael Gibson. 1988. The Muniche Language: with partial reference to verb morphology. (MA thesis, University of Reading).