Matsigenka language

Matsigenka, also called Machiguenga, is a major Arawakan language of the Campa branch, spoken by around 6,200 people in the Urubamba River basin and along the Manu River in the Cusco and Madre de Dios departments of Peru. It remains active and healthy in the Manu region, though it faces pressure from Spanish and Quechua in the Urubamba region. It is close enough to Nomatsiguenga that the two are sometimes treated as dialects of a single language, since both are spoken by the Machiguenga people; Nanti is partially mutually intelligible but ethnically distinct.