Nanti is an
Arawakan language spoken by approximately 250 people in southeastern
Peruvian Amazonia
Peruvian Amazonia ( es, Amazonía del Perú) is the area of the Amazon rainforest included within the country of Peru, from east of the Andes to the borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia. This region comprises 60% of the country and ...
, principally in a number of small communities located near the headwaters of the Camisea and Timpía Rivers. It belongs to the
Kampan branch of the Arawak family, and is most closely related to
Matsigenka, with which it is partially mutually intelligible.,
[
The language is also sometimes called Kogapakori (variants: Cogapacori, Kugapakori), a pejorative term of Matsigenka origin meaning 'violent person'.][Michael, Lev and Christine Beier. 2007. Una breve historia del pueblo Nanti hasta el año 2004. Online version: http://www.cabeceras.org/cabeceras_nanti_histor_2004.pdf]
References
Recordings
Nanti Collection of Christine Beier and Lev Michael
at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
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. Contains four recordings of ceremonies in Nanti with transcriptions and translations.
Bibliography
*Crowhurst, Megan and Lev Michael. 2005. Iterative footing and prominence-driven stress in Nanti (Kampa). Language 81(1):47-95.
*Michael, Lev. 2012. Nanti self-quotation: Implications for the pragmatics of reported speech and evidentiality. Pragmatics and Society 3(2):321-357.
*Michael, Lev. 2012. Possession in Nanti. In Alexandra Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon (eds.), Possession and Ownership: A cross-linguistic typology, pp. 149–166 . Oxford University Press.
*Michael, Lev. 2005. El estatus sintáctico de los marcadores de persona en el idioma Nanti (Campa, Arawak). Lengua y Sociedad. 7(2):21-32.
{{Arawakan languages
Languages of Peru
Campa languages