Munichi language

Munichi is a recently extinct language which was spoken in the village of Munichis, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Yurimaguas, Loreto Region, Peru. In 1988, there were two mother-tongue speakers, but they had not met since the 1970s. The last known fluent speaker, Victoria Huancho Icahuate, died in the late 1990s. As of 2009 there were several semi-speakers who retained significant lexical, and partial grammatical, knowledge of the language (Michael et al. 2013).

Munichi
Muniche
Native toPeru
RegionLoreto
Extinctlate 1990s, with the death of Victoria Huancho Icahuate
Macro-Arawakan ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3myr
Glottologmuni1258
ELPMunichi
Location of Munichi

It is also called Balsapuertiño, named after the village of Balsapuerto in the department of Loreto, Peru.

Word order in Munichi is VSO.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.