Cahuarano

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A language of Peru

ISO 639-3
cah
User Population

No known L1 speakers (2012 SIL). Last speaker died in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

Location

Loreto region: Maynas province, Nanay river headwaters.

Language Status

10 (Extinct).

Classification
Zaparoan, Iquito-Cahuarano
Language Use

Shifted to Spanish [spa].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Cahuarano
Writing

Unwritten [Qaax].

Other Comments

Probably a dialect of Iquitu [iqu].