Caquinte (Caquinte Campa), also Poyenisati, is an
Arawakan language
Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branc ...
of
Peru
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. It is spoken along the Poyeni, Mayapo, Picha, Yori, and Agueni rivers, with some speakers along parts of the Sensa and Vitiricaya rivers, within
Junín, Peru
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. It is an endangered language.
Caquinte people are a division of the
Campa Indians. They mostly live outside the "regional
cash economy". They raise
manioc
''Manihot esculenta'', commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively cultivated ...
as protein
staple
Staple may refer to:
*Staple food, a foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet
*Staple (fastener), a small formed metal fastener
**Surgical staple
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band
** ''Stap ...
, being a
subsistence agricultural community. Their population approximates 1000 people, with "sporadic" outside contact.
[James Stuart Olson (1991). The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 73–. .]
References
External links
ELAR collection
An Audiovisual Corpus of Caquinte (Arawak)deposited by Zachary O'Hagan
Languages of Peru
Campa languages
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