Cahuarano is an extinct indigenous American language of the
Zaparoan family, once spoken along the
Nanay River
The Nanay River is a river in northern Peru. It is a tributary of the Amazon River, merging into this river at the city of Iquitos. The lower part of the Nanay flows to the north and west of the city, while the Itaya River flows to the south a ...
in Peru. The last speaker died in the late 1980s or early 1990s. While considered a language by most scholars, it was considered by some to be a dialect of
Iquito.
Its speakers, who were of the
Moracano tribe, lived north of the Nanay River northwest of
Iquitos
Iquitos (; ) is the capital city of Peru's Maynas Province, Peru, Maynas Province and Loreto Region. It is the largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes, as well as the List of cities in Peru, ninth-most populous city in Peru ...
. In 1930, estimated the language's number of speakers to be around 1,000, while linguist Gustavo Solís gave the number 5 in 1987.
References
External links
* http://www.native-languages.org/cahuarano.html -Cahuarano Resources at nativelanguages.org
Languages of Peru
Zaparoan languages
Languages extinct in the 1990s
Extinct languages of South America
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