Machiguenga is an Arawakan language of South America,
spoken by more than 12,000 people in Peru. There are two major dialects of the Machiguenga language, usually known
as Machiguenga and Nomatsigenga. Some linguists treat them as separate languages, but speakers of the two
can understand each other without much difficulty. A third language,
Caquinte (or Poyenisati), is somewhat more divergent than
the other two and usually treated as a distinct language.
Machiguenga Vocabulary
Our list of vocabulary words in the Machiguenga and Nomatsiguenga dialects, with comparison to words in other Arawakan languages.
Machiguenga Numbers:
Worksheet showing how to count in the Machiguenga language.
˜Machiguenga Language Resources –
Human Rights: Nomatsiguenga:
Translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the Nomatsiguenga language.
Matsigenga
Information on the Machiguenga language, including a piece of a legend written in Machiguenga. Page in Spanish.
Machiguenga LanguageNomatsiguenga Language:
Demographic information on Machiguenga dialects from the Ethnologue of Languages.
Indian tribes
Machiguenga Vocabulary
Nomatsiguenga Language: 
