Caquinte | |
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Poyenisati | |
Native to | Peru |
Native speakers | 500 (2012)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cot |
Glottolog | caqu1242 |
ELP | Caquinte |
Caquinte (Caquinte Campa), also Poyenisati, is an Arawakan languageofPeru. It is spoken along the Poyeni, Mayapo, Picha, Yori, and Agueni rivers, with some speakers along parts of the Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, within Junín, Peru.[2] It is an endangered language.[1]
Caquinte people are a division of the Campa Indians. They mostly live outside the "regional cash economy". They raise manioc as protein staple, being a subsistence agricultural community. There are approximately 1,000 people with "sporadic" outside contact.[3]
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