Urarina is an indigenous language of South America,
spoken by 3000 people in northwestern Peru.
Urarina is a language isolate, not known to be related to any other living language.
Along with a few Cariban languages, like Hixkaryana
and Aparai,
Urarina is notable for using OVS word order (just the opposite of English), which is the rarest typology to
be found in the world's languages.
Urarina Words:
Our list of vocabulary words in the Urarina language.
Urarina Animal Words:
Illustrated glossary of animal words in the Urarina language.
Urarina Language:
Scanned-in Urarina materials including a Biblical translation.
Human Rights: Urarina:
Translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into Urarina.
La Lengua Urarina:
Information on Urarina including language maps of Peru and South America. Page in Spanish.
Urarina Language:
Demographic information on Urarina from the Ethnologue of Languages.
A Grammar of Urarina :
Urarina linguistics text for sale.