Alternate Names: Achual, Achuale, Achuar, Achuara, Jivaro, Maina
Dialects: None known. Different from Shuar , (Jivaro) of Ecuador.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 3,000 in Peru. Population total all countries: 7,000. Majority are monolingual.
Language Use: Bilingual education program. All ages. Also use Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 1%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1981–2008.
Typology: SOV.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Peru