Campa languages

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Campa
Pre-Andine
Geographic
distribution		Western Amazon
Linguistic classification Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Campa
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottolog prea1240
ELP Ashéninka

The Campa (Kampa) or Campan (Kampan) languages, a.k.a. Pre-Andine Maipurean / Arawakan, are closely related Arawakan languages of the Peruvian Amazon.

Languages

The Glottolog uses the term Pre-Andine for this group of languages and classifies them as follows, based on classifications by Michael (2011) [1] and Pedrós: [2]

There are grammars for Ucayali-Pajonal, [3] Ashéninka Perené, [4] Nanti, [5] Aiyíninka Apurucayali, [6] and Caquinte. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Michael, Lev. 2011. La reconstrucción y clasificación interna de la rama Kampa de la familia Arawak. Paper presented at the CILLA V (Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America), 6 October 2011
  2. ↑ Pedrós, Toni (2018). "Ashéninka y asháninka: ¿de cuántas lenguas hablamos?". Cadernos de Etnolingüística. 6 (1): 1–30.
  3. ↑ Pedrós, Toni (2023). A grammar of Ashéninka (Ucayali-Pajonal). Amsterdam: LOT. ISBN   978-94-6093-425-4.
  4. ↑ Mihas, Elena (2015). A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak). Berlin: Mouton.
  5. ↑ Michael, Lev David (2008). Nanti evidential practice: Language, knowledge, and social action in an Amazonian society. Ann Arbor: University of Texas at Austin.
  6. ↑ Payne, David L. (1981). The Phonology and Morphology of Axininca Campa. Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
  7. ↑ Swift, Kenneth (1985). Morphology of Caquinte (Preandine Arawakan). University of Texas at Arlington (MA thesis).
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