Mashco Piro
Cujareño
Native toPeru
EthnicityMashco Piro
Native speakers
200 (2012)[1]
Arawakan
  • Southern
Language codes
ISO 639-3cuj
Glottologmash1270
ELPMashco Piro

Mashco Piro is an Arawakan language spoken in Peru. It is also called Cujareño. It is very similar to the Piro, with an estimated 60% inherent intelligibility.[1] Kaufman considered it a dialect of Piro; Aikhenvald suggests it may rather be a dialect of Iñapari.[2]

Language documentation is limited, since the Mascho Piro are highly nomadic hunter-gatherers[1] who avoid contact with outsiders. The name Cujareño has been associated with the Panoan languages, though without much evidence.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Mashco Piro at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. "Piro Language and the Piro Indian Tribe (Mashco Piro, Cujareño)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2022-04-21.


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