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urarina language
The UrarinaLanguage is a language of unknown classification from Peru. SIL code: URA. ISO 639-2: mis. Population: 2,000 to 3,000 (1998 SIL). Region: Urarinas District, Pucayacu, Chambira, and Urituyacu rivers. Alternate names: SHIMACU, SIMACU, ITUCALI. Comments: There are several dialects with minor differences, inherently intelligible. Ruhlen and others classify it as Andean. Bilingual level estimates for Spanish are 0 60%, 1 20%, 2 10%, 3 7%, 4 3%, 5 0%. Women are monolingual. Men range from monolingual to fairly bilingual in Spanish--the majority are able to handle commercial matters. OVS. Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Literacy rate in second language: Below 5%. Bible portions 1973-1990.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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Instancescontent bearing physicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 entityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 human languageThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 languageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 linguistic expressionThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 physicalAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 spoken human languageA SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
 unclassified spoken languageAn UnclassifiedSpokenLanguage is a SpokenHumanLanguage of unknown relationship to other SpokenHumanLanguages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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