Machinere language

Machinere
Native to	Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
Ethnicity	967 Machinere (2012) [1]
Native speakers	(undated figure of 953) [2]
Language family	Arawakan Southern Piro Machinere
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Official language in	Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mpd
Glottolog	mach1268
ELP	Maxineri

The Machinere language is an Arawakan language spoken by over 1,000 of the Machinere people. It is a Piro language and part of the Southern Maipuran language family. The language is highly similar to the Yine language. ^[3] However, mutual intelligibility is low between the two groups. ^[4] It is one of the official languages of Bolivia. ^[5]

Phonology

^[6]

	Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Dorsal
Plosive	p	t		k
Affricate		t͡s	t͡ʃ	c͡ç
Fricative		s	ʃ	x
Sonant	w	r		j
Nasal	m	n

^[7]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	o
Open	e	a

Orthography

It is written in the Latin script. The Bible was translated in Machinere in 1960. ^[8]

References

1. Crevels, Mily (2012-01-13), Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica (eds.), "Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking" , The Indigenous Languages of South America, DE GRUYTER, pp. 167–234, doi:10.1515/9783110258035.167, ISBN   978-3-11-025513-3 , retrieved 2025-02-22
2. Machinere at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
3. "Manchineri - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
4. Matteson, Esther (1965). The Piro (Arawakan) Language. University of California Publications in Linguistics. Vol. 42. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
5. "Justia Bolivia :: Nueva Constitución Política Del Estado > PRIMERA PARTE > TÍTULO I > CAPÍTULO PRIMERO :: Ley de Bolivia". bolivia.justia.com. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
6. Silva 2013, p. 12.
7. Silva 2013, p. 19.
8. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[ This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue ]}

• Silva, Edineide (2013-01-01). Aspectos gramaticais da língua indígena Manxinéri (Aruák) (Thesis).