Cashibo-Cacataibo
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| Cashibo-Cacataibo | ||
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| Spoken in: | Perú | |
| Total speakers: | 5,000 (1999, Ethnologue) | |
| Language family: | American Panoan Western Cashibo-Cacataibo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cbr | |
| ISO 639-3: | cbr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Cashibo-Cacataibo, Caxibo, Cacibo, Cachibo, Cahivo, Managua, or Hagueti is an indiginous American language spoken by a few thousand aboriginal people in western South America.
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The language is spoken vigorously by the aboriginal people of the same name. The language is official along the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers in Perú where it is most widely spoken. It is used in schools until third grade. There are not many monolinguals, although some women over the age of fifty are.
There is five to ten percent literacy compared to fifteen to twenty-five percent literacy in Spanish as a second language. A Cashibo-Cacataibo dictionary has been compiles, and there is a body of literature, especially poetry.
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