Caquinte language

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.^[2] It is an endangered language.^[1]

Caquinte
Poyenisati
Native to	Peru
Native speakers	500 (2012)[1]
Language family	Arawakan Southern Campa Ashaninka Caquinte
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cot
Glottolog	caqu1242
ELP	Caquinte

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.^[3]

References

1. Crevels, Mily (2012). "Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking". In Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter. p. 214. doi:10.1515/9783110258035. hdl:1887/70116. ISBN 978-3-11-025803-5.
2. Montoya Terrones, Fabián (2002). Naciones amazónicas. Lima, Peru: Editorial San Marcos. OCLC 51830202.
3. Olson, James Stuart (1991). "Caquinte". The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-313-26387-3.

External links

• ELAR collection: An Audiovisual Corpus of Caquinte (Arawak) deposited by Zachary O'Hagan