Mashco Piro language

Mashco Piro is an Arawakan language of the Southern branch's Piro group, spoken in Peru by the Mashco Piro people, also called the Nomole, a name meaning brothers or countrymen in both their own language and in Yine. It shares an estimated 60 percent inherent intelligibility with the closely related Yine, or Piro, language, and the Yine themselves describe 50 to 80 percent mutual comprehensibility with Mashco Piro, which they consider more archaic; scholars continue to debate whether Mashco Piro is best treated as a dialect of Piro/Yine or of Inapari. About 200 native speakers were estimated in 2012, but documentation remains extremely limited, with only around 300 words recorded, because the Mashco Piro are highly nomadic hunter-gatherers who avoid contact with outsiders.