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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 –

Machiguenga Indian Language

Machiguenga Orthography

Machiguenga Phonology

Machiguenga Text:
Machiguenga Bible Translation

Machiguenga Bibliography:
Scanned-in Machiguenga language materials from the Rosetta Project.

Nomatsiguenga Language

Nomatsiguenga Orthography

Nomatsiguenga Linguistic Description

Nomatsiguenga Grammar:
Nomatsiguenga Pronunciation

Nomatsiguenga Language Map:

Nomatsiguenga Numbers

Nomatsiguenga Syntax:
Scanned-in Nomatsiguenga language materials from the Rosetta Project.

Human Rights: Nomatsiguenga:
Translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the Nomatsiguenga language.

House of Languages: Machiguenga

Nomachiguenga:
Information about Matsigenga language usage.

Matsigenga, Nomatsigenga, y Caquinte
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 Language Tree

Nomatsiguenga Language Tree:
Theories about Machiguenga's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Machiguenga Language Structures

Nomatsiguenga Language Structures:
Machiguenga linguistic profiles and academic bibliographies.

Machiguenga Culture and History Links

The Machiguenga: Peruvian Hunter-Gatherers

Machiguenga: An Ethnobotanical Study of Eastern Peru
Information about the native plants and food traditions of the Machiguenga people.

Books for sale on the Machiguengas

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.

Links, References, and Additional Information

Los Machiguenga

El Pueblo Machiguenga:
Information about the Machiguenga tribe in Spanish.

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