Achuar-Shiwiar in Peru

Speakers

3,809

Type

Location

Achuar-Shiwiar in Peru

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Achuar-Shiwiar in Peru

Size

3,809

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
Provincial and district

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

Graphisation & script encoding

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
In the Provinces of Loreto and Datem del Marañon, Loreto region

Size / Number of users

Number of users

3809
Source
Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)
Year
2017

Users within total population

0.01200
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

0
Source
Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)
Year
2017

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

3,179
83
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)

Year
2017

Age distribution of users

574
15
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)

Year
2017

Age distribution of users

52
1
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)

Year
2017

Generational use

52
48
3,809
All generations
Source

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)

Year
2017

Educational attainment

765
763
Early childhood education
1,883
Primary education
Lower secondary education
242
Higher secondary education
153
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Completion