Muniche
Muniche was a language isolate once spoken in Peru.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Muniche is an extinct language which was spoken in the village of Munichis, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Yurimaguas, Loreto Region, Peru. The last known fluent speaker, Victoria Huancho Icahuate, died in the late 1990s, but the language was already moribund by the 1930s. As of 2009, there were several semi-speakers who retained significant lexical, and partial grammatical, knowledge of the language.
It is also called Balsapuertiño, named after the village of Balsapuerto in the department of Loreto, Peru.
Word order in Muniche is VSO.
From Wikipedia · Muniche language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Muniche
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | nuStiTu* | |
| name | wiTu* | |
| ear | ep* | |
| nose | wusu* | |
| tooth | di* | |
| tongue | tu* | |
| hand | ta7su* | |
| blood | Ca7a* | |
| bone | Castupu* | |
| skin | CaSpu* | |
| knee | Cu* | |
| breast | Cu* | |
| liver | Came* | |
| water | idu* | |
| fire | Cusu* | |
| sun | Swa* | |
| star | CaCa* | |
| stone | sustu* | |
| mountain | Ca7mu* | |
| tree | albor* | |
| leaf | Catui* | |
| night | nu7tamura* | |
| dog | Sinu* | |
| fish | napsi* | |
| louse | 5u* | |
| one | wu7sa7a* | |
| two | utspa* | |
| I | apa7nu* | |
| you | apapu* | |
| we | apa7wu* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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