Machiguenga
Machiguenga is an Arawakan language spoken in Peru, by about 6,200 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Matsigenka (Machiguenga) is a major Arawakan language in the Campa sub-branch of the family. It is spoken in the Urubamba River Basin and along the Manu River in the Cusco and Madre de Dios departments of Peru by around 6,200 people. According to Ethnologue, it is experiencing pressure from Spanish and Quechua in the Urubamba region, but is active and healthy in the Manu region (most speakers are monolingual in Matsigenka). It is close enough to Nomatsiguenga that the two are sometimes considered dialects of a single language; both are spoken by the Machiguenga people. Nanti is partially mutually intelligible but ethnically distinct.
There is extensive morphological inflection in Matsigenka; it is considered to be polysynthetic and features an agglutinative morphology, where both suffixes and prefixes are used to mark various inflectional categories.
From Wikipedia · Matsigenka language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Machiguenga
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | baironci* | |
| eye | okyici* | |
| ear | gyempitanci* | |
| nose | gyirimaSinci* | |
| tooth | aici* | |
| tongue | neneci* | |
| hand | akoci* | |
| blood | iraci* | |
| bone | tongyici* | |
| skin | meSinanci* | |
| knee | gyeretonci* | |
| breast | comici* | |
| liver | irirapananci* | |
| water | nia | |
| sun | poreaciri* | |
| star | impokyiro* | |
| stone | mapu* | |
| mountain | otiSi* | |
| tree | inCato* | |
| leaf | opana* | |
| night | citeniri* | |
| dog | ociti* | |
| fish | Sima* | |
| louse | neci* | |
| one | paniro* | |
| two | piteni* | |
| I | naro* | |
| you | biro* | |
| we | naroegyi* | |
| drink | pobikaka* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Pichis AshéninkaArawakan42% alike
- NomatsiguengaArawakan41% alike
- AsháninkaArawakan38% alike
- Ucayali-Yurúa AshéninkaArawakan37% alike
- Ajyíninka ApurucayaliArawakan36% alike
- Ashéninka PerenéArawakan33% alike
Grammar
- Pichis AshéninkaArawakan90% alike
- AsháninkaArawakan86% alike
- IñapariArawakan84% alike
- NomatsiguengaArawakan82% alike
- Yanesha'Arawakan81% alike
- OttawaAlgic81% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · mach1267 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · mcb