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Chamicuro is a nearly extinctSouth American language spoken inPeru. The language was used by the Chamicuro people, who number around one hundred people. The Chamicuros currently live on a tributary of theHuallaga river, in Peru, in an area calledPampa Hermosa, though many had been dislocated to theYavarí andNapo Rivers and to Brazil.^[2]

As with all native languages in Peru, Chamicuro was by default an official language in the area in which it was spoken. A dictionary has been published by the Chamicuro, however no children can speak the language as the community has shifted to Spanish.

There is dispute as to whether the unattestedlanguage of theAguano people was the same language as Chamicuro. Loukotka (1968)^[4] had identified it with Chamicuro, but the Chamicuro report that the Aguano people spokeQuechua.^{[5][full citation needed]}

Chamicuro has five vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/. All vowels have both short and long forms.^[6]

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For a list of words relating to Chamicuro language, see theChamicuro language category of words inWiktionary, the free dictionary.

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