Urarina language

Urarina
Itucale
kachá[1]
Native toPeru
RegionLoreto Region, Urarinas District along the Chambira River[2]
EthnicityUrarina people
Native speakers
3,000 (2002)[3]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3ura
Glottologurar1246
ELPUrarina

Urarina is a language isolate spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people.[4] There are around 3,000 speakers in Urarinas District (along the Chambira River).[3] It uses the Latin script. It is also known as Itucali, Simacu or Shimacu.[3]

It has a canonical word order of object–verb–subject.[5][6]

  1. ^ W. Adelaar, 2004, p. 457.[full citation needed]
  2. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. ^ a b c Urarina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  4. ^ "Urarina Indian Language". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  5. ^ "WALS Online - Language Urarina". Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  6. ^ "WALS Online - Chapter Order of Subject, Object and Verb". Retrieved 11 January 2017.