ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

South America · ISO 639-3 cbu · Glottocode cand1248

Candoshi-Shapra

Candoshi-Shapra joins the atlas as a threatened language isolate of Peru with a Latin-script assignment.

Language family
Language isolate
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
threatened
Macroarea
South America
Source country codes
PE
Reference point
-4.238, -76.935

Open research question

What evidence documents relationships among the groups joined in the name, local orthography and educational use?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.