Munichi is an extinct language which was spoken in the village of Munichis, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Yurimaguas , Loreto Region , Peru . In 1988, there were two mother-tongue speakers, but they had not met since the 1970s. The last known fluent speaker, Victoria Huancho Icahuate, died in the late 1990s. As of 2009 there were several semi-speakers who retained significant lexical, and partial grammatical, knowledge of the language (Michael et al. 2013).
3-674: It is also called Balsapuertiño , named after the village of Balsapuerto in the department of Loreto , Peru. Word order in Munichi is VSO . Unattested "Munichi stock" varieties listed by Loukotka (1968): Varieties listed by Mason (1950): The language is considered an isolate (Michael et al. 2013), but the pronominal suffixes bear a close resemblance to those reconstructed for proto- Arawakan (Gibson 1996:18-19), and some lexical items are similar to ones in Arawakan languages (Jolkesky 2016:310–317). Although Jolkesky ( id .) argues that
6-624: The Cholon-Hibito , Kechua , and Mochika language families due to contact. Munichi has six vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/. Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Munichi. Kichwa-Lamista people Balsa Puerto District Balsa Puerto District is one of six districts of the province Alto Amazonas in Peru . 5°49′45″S 76°34′08″W / 5.8291°S 76.5689°W / -5.8291; -76.5689 This Loreto Region geography article
9-428: The language belongs to a putative Macro-Arawakan stock, evidence has yet to be provided for placing it either in a sister branch to the Arawakan language family or in a branch within this language family. There is substantial borrowing from the local variety of Quechua , and to a lesser extent from Spanish and Cahuapanan languages (Michael et al. 2013). Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with
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