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Name: Machiguenga

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Machaguenga; Amachengue; Macheyenga; Matsigenga; Matsiganga; Matsigenka; Mañaries; Matsiguenga

Spoken in: Peru

Number of speakers: 10,100 (2000) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 11000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 10149 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: mcb

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Maipurean (Maipuran, Arawakan)

Parent Subgroup: Campa; Pre-Andine Arawakan Subfamily; Kampa; Pre-Andine (prea)

Child Dialects: Nomatsiguenga; Campa; Atiri; Machinguenga; "Nomatsiguenga Campa" (not) Caquinte; Campa; Atiri; Caquinte Campa; Poyenisati; "Cachomashiri"; Poyenisate (cot)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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