Mashco Piro is an
Arawakan language spoken in
Peru
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, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
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. It is also called Cujareño. It is very similar to the
Piro, with an estimated 60% inherent intelligibility.
[ Kaufman considered it a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may rather be a dialect of ]Iñapari
Iñapari is a Peruvian village capital of the Tahuamanu Province in the Madre de Dios Region, located on the triple border of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru. It is connected to Brazil by the Brazil-Peru Integration Bridge, an international bridge cr ...
.
Language documentation is limited, since the Mascho Piro
The Mashco-Piro or Mascho Piro, also known as the Cujareño people and Nomole, are an indigenous tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest. They live in Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios Re ...
are highly nomadic hunter-gatherers
A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, ...
[ who avoid contact with outsiders. The name Cujareño has been associated with the Panoan languages, though without much evidence.
]
Notes
Arawakan languages
Languages of Peru
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