Caquinte (Caquinte Campa), also Poyenisati, is an
Arawakan language
Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branc ...
of
Peru
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. 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. It is an endangered language.
Caquinte people are a division of the
Campa Indians. They mostly live outside the "regional
cash economy". They raise
manioc
''Manihot esculenta'', commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively cultivated ...
as protein
staple
Staple may refer to:
*Staple food, a foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet
*Staple (fastener), a small formed metal fastener
**Surgical staple
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band
** ''Stap ...
, being a
subsistence agricultural community. Their population approximates 1000 people, with "sporadic" outside contact.
[James Stuart Olson (1991). The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 73–. .]
References
External links
ELAR collection
An Audiovisual Corpus of Caquinte (Arawak)deposited by Zachary O'Hagan
Languages of Peru
Campa languages
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