Ashéninka, Pichis

CPU

threatened

Alternate Names: Pichis Ashéninca, “Pichis Campa” (pej.)

Dialects: None known. Somewhat intelligible with other Ashéninka varieties.

Genealogy:

Maipurean
Southern
Campa
Ashéninga

Demographics: 12,000 (2001 SIL).

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 30%. Literacy rate in L2: 35%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1996–2008.

Typology: VSO.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Peru