Achuar

Facts

Language: Achuar
Alternate names: Achual, Achuar-Shiwiar, Achuale, Achuara, Jívaro, Maina
Language code: acu
Language family: Jivaroan, Jívaro (SIL classification)
Number of speakers: 5,443
Vulnerability: Threatened
Script: Latin script.

More information:

Kaufman (2007: 69) considers Jívaro a “language area” with two emergent languages, Jívaro and Aguaruna. Shuar, Achuar, Aguaruna, and Huambisa are closely related languages or dialects of a single language.