Campa languages

The Campa (Kampa) or Campan (Kampan) languages, a.k.a. Pre-Andine Maipurean / Arawakan, are closely related Arawakan languages of the Peruvian Amazon.

Campa
Pre-Andine
Geographic distribution	Western Amazon
Linguistic classification	Arawakan Southern Campa
Subdivisions	Asháninka Ashéninka Kakinte Matsigenka Nomatsigenga Ashe-Asha Norte Nanti
Language codes
Glottolog	prea1240
ELP	Ashéninka

Languages

The Glottolog uses the term Pre-Andine for this group of languages and classifies them as follows, based on classifications by Michael (2011)^[1] and Pedrós:^[2]

• Pre-Andine
  • Nomatsigenga
  • Asha-Ashe-Kak-Matsi-Nan
    • Matsi-Nan
      • Matsigenka
      • Nanti
    • Asha-Ashe-Kak
      • Caquinte
      • Ashe-Asha
        • Asháninka
        • Ashéninka
          • Ashéninka Pajonal
          • South Ucayali Ashéninka
        • Ashe-Asha Norte
          • Ashéninka Perené
          • Pichis Ashéninka
          • Aiyíninka Apurucayali
          • Ucayali-Yurúa Ashéninka

There are grammars for Ucayali-Pajonal,^[3] Ashéninka Perené,^[4] Nanti,^[5] Aiyíninka Apurucayali,^[6] and Caquinte.^[7]

References

1. Michael, Lev. 2011. La reconstrucción y clasificación interna de la rama Kampa de la familia Arawak. Paper presented at the CILLA V (Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America), 6 October 2011
2. Pedrós, Toni (2018). "Ashéninka y asháninka: ¿de cuántas lenguas hablamos?". Cadernos de Etnolingüística. 6 (1): 1–30.
3. Pedrós, Toni (2023). A grammar of Ashéninka (Ucayali-Pajonal). Amsterdam: LOT. ISBN 978-94-6093-425-4.
4. Mihas, Elena (2015). A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak). Berlin: Mouton.
5. Michael, Lev David (2008). Nanti evidential practice: Language, knowledge, and social action in an Amazonian society. Ann Arbor: University of Texas at Austin.
6. Payne, David L. (1981). The Phonology and Morphology of Axininca Campa. Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
7. Swift, Kenneth (1985). Morphology of Caquinte (Preandine Arawakan). University of Texas at Arlington (MA thesis).