The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin who inhabit the valleys of the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers. [1] According to both archaeological and historical sources, they have resided in the Chambira Basin of contemporary northeastern Peru for centuries. [ 2 ]

Urarina is currently spoken by the 2,000-3,000 members of the Urarina tribe, the majority of whom have retained the ability to speak the language. However, bilingualism and use of Spanish in everyday life is on the rise, as more and more Spanish-speaking mestizos have immigrated to the valley where the Urarina live.

2023年11月1日 · Urarina lands are traversed by a section of the North Peruvian Oil Pipeline (Oleoducto Nor-Peruano)—that connects extraction sites in the northern Peruvian Amazon to the Pacific coast (see Fig. 1)—and have been affected by an undetermined number of oil spills (Lawson et al., 2022), as well as associated conflicts, interventions, and other ...

Urarina is spoken by about 3,000 people in the Loreto region of northwest Peru, particularly in the Urarinas district, along the Pucayacu, Chambira and Urituyacu rivers. It not related to any other living language, and is one of the few languages in the world with object-verb-subject word order.

The Urarina are an indigenous group found in the Peruvian lowlands. Seemingly isolated, they actually have a long history of engaging in networks of trade with outside groups, argues Bartholomew Dean in this first ever ethnography of the group.

2024年9月21日 · The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin (Loreto) who inhabit the valleys of the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers. According to both archaeological and historical sources, they have resided in the Chambira Basin of contemporary northeastern Peru for centuries.

Fusing public anthropology with digital humanities, the Urarina Digital Heritage Project will make use of Indigenous information management systems and cultural protocols to create a digital collection of Urarina cultural heritage and explore issues related to Indigenous digital archives.

Urarina is an indigenous language of South America. Along with a few Cariban languages, like Hixkaryana and Aparai , Urarina is notable for using OVS word order (just the opposite of English), which is the rarest typology to be found in the world's languages.

Urarina is a stable indigenous language of Peru. It is an isolate that is not known to be related to any other language. The language is used as a first language by all in the ethnic community.

English: Urarina is an isolate spoken by less than 3,000 people in the area of the Rio Chambira, Loreto Province, North-western Peru. The language exhibits a range of unusual grammatical characteristics that are rarely or not at all found in other languages.