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Machiguenga Indian Language (Matsiguenga)

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.



˜Our Online Machiguenga Materials

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 Language * Nomatsiguenga Language:
     Demographic information on Machiguenga dialects from the Ethnologue of Languages.

˜Machiguenga Culture and History

The Machiguenga: Peruvian Hunter-Gatherers * Machiguenga: An Ethnobotanical Study of Eastern Peru
     Information about the native plants and food traditions of the Machiguenga people.
El Pueblo Machiguenga
     Information about the Machiguenga tribe in Spanish. With photographs.
Literacy Acquisition, Retention, And Usage Among The Machiguengas
     Sociolinguistics book for sale online about bilingual education in the Machiguenga tribe.
Families of the Forest: The Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon
     Ethnography of the Matsiguengas.



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