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Caquinte

Caquinte is an Arawakan language spoken in Peru, by about 500 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Caquinte · 11.5°S 73.4°W

Caquinte (Caquinte Campa), also Poyenisati, is an Arawakan language of Peru. It is spoken along the Poyeni, Mayapo, Picha, Yori, and Agueni rivers, with some speakers along parts of the Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, within Junín, Peru. It is an endangered language.

Caquinte people are a division of the Campa Indians. They mostly live outside the "regional cash economy". They raise manioc as protein staple, being a subsistence agricultural community. There are approximately 1,000 people with "sporadic" outside contact.

From Wikipedia · Caquinte language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

Aquejetavacaajiaca maasano caquinte. Chooca aquenquejantaca maasano, chooca amejigaca, atsajiaque taaca opajitapae ocameetsataque antajiguica. Tee oncameetsateji iromperaperanajicaji, tee oncameetsateji irogashinoncajajiacaji. Jero cameetsatatsica aavacaj aiaquempa.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Caquinte

MeaningWordRomanization
namebairo*
eyeokiha*
earxeNpita*
toothCaNCanahai*
tonguenanene*
handnaco*
bloodraha*
bonetoNki*
skinmeSina*
liverirapana*
waterniya*
firenoamarito*
sunkaciri*
stonemapi*
mountainoceNpi*
treeCaki*
leafabana*
nightcitenin*
dogSiSi*
louseiri*
oneaparo*
twomariti*
Ino*
youapiati*
weatiNpa*
drinkmiraga*
seeneh*
hearkemisa*
diemetoh*
comekorake*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary

Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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